I think that, depending on the context, abo is short for either abonnés (subscribers) or abonnement (subscription) You will see the latter word all the time in ads on the Paris metro... Regards Marshall On May 18, 2006, at 12:12 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

On 5/18/06, Mathias Koerber <mathias@koerber.org> wrote:

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abo is short for abonnement .. a city or district, in french

You may be thinking of 'arrondissement', which means district.

'Abo', however seems to refer to subscribers:

I knew the word, but it was always associated in their rDNS with the names of french towns

Moral - never try to translate french when you know just about enough to order your dinner / call a taxi :)

thanks srs