No
Because the specification of the challenge made it clear that they intended initialisms to be included (by the examples of BBC and CIA), even though they misused the word 'acronym'.
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fool_on_the_hill,
Sat 13 Aug 2005, 17:01,
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^^^This.
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Vega31,
Sat 13 Aug 2005, 17:25,
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