Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0
From Peter Punk <ppu...@damnthatspam.hetnet.nl>
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· 10 Nov 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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On Tue, 09 Nov 1999 20:18:40 +0100, Ben Bucksch <new...@bucksch.org> provoked the following text: >> : Why change usenet and e-mail traditions? And how about ":-)))", ";-)", >> : ":-*" or "|-/"? Not to mention "@--\--\--" >> : Thinking up new emoticons is part of the fun of posting in any NG. >Yes, and we don't even try to catch all of them. I really don't see why we "need" it anyway to have smileys converted to a single char... >> : Just leave emoticons alone and save yourself a lot of programming and >> : headache and us a lot of angryness (angryness is not the right word, but i >> : can't think of another. Sorry). >We have a pref to turn this off. We didn't decide yet, what will be the >default. That would make the prog only larger, and for what i've heared is that the whole idea was to make the prog smaller. >> Aaah, can't you, people forget inventing new heuristics, which will >> always trigger in a wrong place, sooner or later, and do something more >> usefull? Do you really think that someone who can read, is unable >> to figure out emoticons? >It wasn't my idea, but I think, it's funny to have graphical smilies. Try in MS-Word to make a ":-)))", you'll see a smileyface and two closing brackets. I'ts annoying as heck! -- Peter Punk \ / ---\\\\--- / \ If it wasn't for C, we'd be using BASI, PASAL, and OBOL!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,a634ddb4f5113d2a X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: ppu...@damnthatspam.hetnet.nl (Peter Punk) Subject: Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0 Date: 1999/11/10 Message-ID: <PZo...@4ax.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 546852852 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <382...@student.canterbury.ac.nz> <382...@bucksch.org> <SVgnOLt4pTqkjt6WIUFpLf3=+p6...@4ax.com> <8091ca$gf5$1...@kujawiak.man.lodz.pl> <382...@bucksch.org> Organization: Total Disorganisation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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