In celebration of my recent graduation from stranger to newbie, and in sympathy with all strangers out there, I thought I'd post an explanation of the acronym YART.

Having come across the term in a post some weeks ago, I went looking on the Web. Tried a couple of acronym sites without success, then my usual search engine. I waded through the list of hundreds of references to some sort of 3D graphics program called YART, pages for the "Y-ART Gallery" and links to community organizations' Young Adult Round Tables,.....

Then I found the answer much closer to home..... It was coined by tsuwm on this very bulletin board - see "British v American" thread in Wordplay and Fun - on Wed 30 Aug 2000. And I quote:

>the structure of this board makes moving
from thread to thread a little awkward

Yet Another Rehashed Topic! (time to coin an acronym: YART)

I'm sure that tsuwm or some other kind correspondent will give this thread a shake from time to time, in order to bring it to the attention of strangers we haven't yet met, he said tautologically.