John,

With my HTML turned "ON", the characters you sent ... the COLON, the
"DASH" and the "RIGHT-SIDE PARENTHESIS"  mark, which followed the word
"characters" in your post showed up in your message as an upright,
round face in bright yellow, two happy black eyes (happy expressed by
how they are open) and a big smile highlighted in red at the center, as
the mouth is open, with cute little dimples at the corners. This is the
kind of thing I receive when my HTML is turned on.

I guess I'm not versed in the parameters enough to know exactly how this
works, but when the HTML is off, I get the flat, dull ascii
characters....no fun faces.

John Rodgers
'88 GL Driver

John Brush wrote:

>The facts are that smiley faces are text characters. :-) (there should be
>a smiley face at the end of that sentence) Its just parenthesis, a hyphen,
>and a colon. Those are ascii characters, valid in a text message.
>
>HTML is embedded code that a browser reads to know where to place text,
>font sizes, colors,
>and other formating information for displaying the text and pictures.
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>Not sure what facts you are looking for, but if you type a
>standard (not extended ascii) character on
>your keyboard, and it does not show up on in the message, something is not
>set up right on your end, or with the server.
>
>I never noticed or looked for them on the list, but I can assure you
>that they have nothing to do with HTML format info.
>
>Can you not send a message with parenthesis?
>
>John
>
>On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, John Rodgers wrote:
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>>John Brush wrote:
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>>>Sorry, but Smiley faces and the like are not HTML.
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>>Hmmm!
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>> So far as I can tell my Emoticons are only transmitted when my HTML is
>>turned on. Otherwise they show up in the mail as the old style text
>>symbols.That is why I felt  they are part of HTML. Pehaps this
>>misconception could be cleared up with some input of actual facts as to
>>how it works?
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>>John Rodgers
>>88 GL Driver
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