On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, John Rodgers wrote:

> 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.

In HTML mode, your software is replacing the standard text smilies that
most people use with images.  This doesn't really  have anything to do
with HTML, though.

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