Sunday, June 6, 2004, Thomas Fernandez wrote: > Correct, as the smiley-function in TB has nothing to do with the > author. It is only and exclusively up to the recipient to decide > whether he wants Ascii-smileys replaced by icon-smileys.
Even a silly sentence as "The dog says grr and the cat meows" shouldn't be interpreted as "The dog says angry and the cat meows" unless _I_ (the sender) mean it to be so. I shouldn't have to think twice when writing it, and the recipient shouldn't have to think twice when reading it either. > The smileys have nothing to do with the sender of an email, this is > not HTML! You send the email as usual. The receipient, if he uses the > RTV in TB, can choose to have the emoticons replace by smileys. It is > his choice, and only his. Again: This has *nothing* to do with the > sender. This has /everything/ to do with the sender. It his, and only his, responsibility to make sure that the message sent isn't ambiguous. I've shown one way to make it so, another (and IMO a much better approach) would be if there was a standardised header X-Always-Show-Smileys-As-ASCII. You asked me to stop this thread, well I tried to CC to TBOT, but I am not subscribed there under this address. So I'll just hope that anybody that does respond make a CC there. Fair enough? -- Urban Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah." ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
