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From: DALE KNIGHT <>
Subject: Re: [ABOUT WORDS] PTO
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 20:28:38 -0700


I frequently work with network folks during the course of my day. To them
SNAT means Source Network Address Translation, having to do with IP changes
through a firewall.

------ Original Message ------
Received: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 04:53:32 PM MST
From: "Anne Cruise" <>
To:
Subject: Re: [ABOUT WORDS] PTO

> Hi!
>
> PTO in the UK also means Power Take Off...
>
> but not when at the bottom of a sheet of writing! (unless it's a tractor
> manual page of course...)
>
> MOT - well, a bit of an oddity - but it usually stands for Ministry of
> Transport Test - a yearly test of roadworthiness on any motor vehicle over 3

> years old. It could fit in if someone was saying she went for her MOT ( a
> transference, to mean a physical check-up).
>
> SNAT - any more clues as to the context? It has me baffled.
>
> Rather like Bruce's Phunny Frazes #10. Isn't anyone else joining in?
>
> --
> Anne
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 11:27 PM
> Subject: [ABOUT WORDS] PTO
>
>
> >
> > My sister corresponds with an English couple. She met them on a cruise
> > several years ago. They are in their 80's. Nice folks.
> >
> > The wife usually writes and in the last letter she used some alphabet
soup
> > that my sister didn't understand.
> >
> > SNAT
> >
> > PTO (I figured this one out -- please turn over)
> >
> > MOT (MOT was used in connection with a "locum" doctor's visit.)
> >
> >
> > PTO in American (includes Canada) would be part of a farm
> > tractor --
> > power take off.
> >
> > Fred
>
>
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