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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 9 Nov 1999.
Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0

Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0

Przemyslaw Brojewski wrote:
> Peter Punk <ppu...@damnthatspam.hetnet.nl> wrote:
> : 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.

> : 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. 

> 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.

-- 
Ben Bucksch
http://www.bucksch.org

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