--On 2/07/2005 22:55 +0300 Avi wrote:
Clive, it seems that your position is a bit extreme for me.
Well, perhaps I put my case a little too starkly!
I don't actually object to the occasional use of smilies at the end of a
paragraph or message to indicate mood but I do find it quite offensive
(irrational, I know) to have to navigate through a sea of :junk: :pop:
:wow: :giraffe: rubbish: pantechnicon: random characters that sometimes
make messages quite difficult to follow, particularly when reading and
replying to them from outside of TB! where, of course they have no meaning
at all except to convince the recipient of your message that you have
suffered some form of brain slippage.
I did ask the question in this list some time ago about whether it was
possible to filter out these :excrescences: at source with some form of
scripting - but I think this could be difficult.
--
Clive Taylor
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