Three Letter Acronyms (TLAs) have become ubiquitous across Public Sector writing – and have also made their way into Geocaching – e.g. DNF and FTF.
Their origin can be traced back to the military where historically messages need to be manually encoded and transmitted. Acronyms made transmission more efficient by reducing the number of characters that need to be encoded and transmitted, and also increased security by reducing the size of messages and the time needed to transmit them.
With the development and now almost universal use of computers with compression, encryption and burst transmission there is no longer any benefit from the continuing use of acronyms.
Notwithstanding their use continues to accelerate to the point where people are using them without knowing their meaning, or awareness of multiple meanings, or dependent context, which if outside, might not be clear or accurate – e.g. SME – Specialist Military Equipment, Subject Matter Expert, Small-to-Medium Enterprise, Sony Music Entertainment, Senior Mechanical Engineer – or any of the further more than 60 other definitions that can be found on the Internet. Which is it?
The relevance of its name will become clear when you visit. Enjoy.
The cache is a 1ltr Sistema container that when placed contained a geocache logbook, a pen, a letterbox log book, a letterbox self-inking stamp, a couple of small trinkets and a small prize for the FTF.
NB: Make sure you leave the stamp in the cache.