Posted by dorayme on 05/18/07 06:34

In article <mmb3i.165374$Do.95505@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi>,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

> Scripsit dorayme:
>
> > Smileys can be used as a concession to ease the severity with
> > which some earthlings take things.
>
> Smileys are just as vague and deceptive as smiling is. Never trust a smiling
> cat, or a smiley.
>
> ObHTML: What are the six ways of using smileys in HTML authoring? They are:
> 1) The ":-)" method.
> 2) Ditto with <tt>...</tt>.
> 3) As 2) but with CSS code with a font-family setting, so that most users
> might see the characters the way you mean.
> 4) Unicode characters for smileys.
> 5) Images.
> 6) The correct way: don't use 'em.

When I joined this group, I never used them much preferring to
keep a straight face like Bob Hope after his one liners.

But then I noticed that Els was very nice and popular and
everyone was nice to her and she used various clear signals like
smileys and I thought maybe that is the way to go. maybe that was
the secret. A martian just looks around and sees what others do.

But I continued to be hated and shunned and killfiled. Nothing
worked. So now I just put them in or not as I feel like it
without much hope or fervour.

I will try a period of straight face and see how I feel.

--
dorayme

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