andrel wrote:
> On 22-7-2009 1:26, David H. Burns wrote:
>> andrel wrote:
>>
>>> That you see your smiley does not mean everybody else will.
>>
>> Thanks. Did you see it? I did when I read my own post. I don't think 
>> it shows up in the text in
>> my "sent" file. These matters get complicated.
>> :) (smiley ?)
>>
> 
> I do. In your post, not when replying :) , neither yours nor mine.
> The point I tried to make earlier is that it depends on the mail reader 
> of the person *reading*. You don't have an influence on it. You type a 
> colon followed by a bracket, that is what you sent and what is supported 
> by NNTP. After that somebody is trying to cleverly replace them by 
> rotated smileys, which is OK as long as they get it right :/
> IIRC they have problems with exotic ones like \o/ perhaps because they 
> can conceivably be in a real post or in /ASCII art/.
> 
> In short, there is a big chance that what you will see is not what I 
> wrote. Perhaps it is what I intended.

Thanks, again, Andrel. The smileys work, :/ and \o/ came through as the 
Ascii characters.
I'm using Thunderbird.

David

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