[24hoursupport] Re: Netiquette; smilie :)

  • From: Ray <Ray2047@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: 24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:42:33 -0600

 
I prefer pseudo "HTML tags" like <G> or <LOL> or  </sarcasm>  but there 
are undoubtedly people that don't get them.

0e60wq102@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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> Yes, I've found that attempts at humorous or harmless sarcasm run a danger
>of being misinterpreted as deliberate rancour or insult. For instance, after
>I ran a post recently about anyone named 'Dell' should run a domain search
>before changing their name so as not to offend the Dell Computer Company, I
>realized afterwards the whole attempt at humor ran a serious risk of being
>interpreted as pure offensiveness and wished I had not written a word. :-) 
>I do prefer the more simple smilie with a colon and a right parentheses
>mark,although it's only a personal thing, and enjoy getting them either way,
>and I think the new way of adding the three dots to keep it from becoming
>the'new' yellow-face html smilie, also helps differentiate it from a simple
>typo...
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