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Easy measure: make all acronyms at least four letters long. I pick the number four because three-letter acronyms usually have many associated Wikipedia articles, while four-letter acronyms usually have at most one.
Amusingly, the obvious (in my mind) abbreviation for "four-letter acronym" conflicts with a certain free lossless audio codec.
The usual abbreviation for "four-letter abbreviation" is "ETLA".
I thought that was XTLA.