yes, I've not ever used them much at all other than on MSN messenger. firstly, i used to click on the smileys as, I didn't know of understand the code. however, that was a big hassle with a huge list to go down with magnfiication, looking at each one to see what I needed. most of them are not clear to me what they are doing anyway! so i stuck to the smile, grin, sticking tongue out and that was it lol. Now, I've learnt a few codes I find it far easier to insert smileys by code now. it's just so much more quicker for me. anyway, i dont use them on e-mail etc as, they don't look nice and zoomtext doesn't pick them up well anyway. even though by sight I can't quite make out what I'm looking at. Justin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Léonie Watson" <lw@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 9:58 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Emoticons other than in Messenger > Mark, > > I tend to use them, particularly if I'm communicating with a sighted > person. This is an old habit from before I was blind and hard to break. I > have Jaws set up to recognise certain strings of punctuation as emoticons > and it works well, but I tend to avoid using them as much when communicating > on the VI centric lists and use full words instead. *Smile. > > HTH, > Tink. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Matthews" <mark.matthews53@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Access UK " <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:24 PM > Subject: [access-uk] Emoticons other than in Messenger > > > > HI, > > > > I was wondering are graphical emoticons such as the happy and sad > > smileys, winking smileys etc, okay to use in printed texts in > > general....for example in E-mails and SMS messages? I've got a feeling > > some emoticons are only common to Windows/MSN Messenger. I wanted to > > make sure first just in case people wondered why I was sending them > > stray punctuation lol! > > > > Cheers, > > > > Mark > > > > Mark Matthews > > E-mail: mark.matthews53@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > MSN/Windows Messenger: markmatthews3@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Home Page: http://www.qsl.net/gw0wgk > > > > > > ** To leave the Access-UK list, send a message with the Subject:- > > ** unsubscribe > > ** to access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ** Please do not put text or signatures in the message body > > ** For other things like setting nomail when on holiday, > > ** or digest mode, send a message, to > > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- > > ** faq > > ** Please do not put text or signatures in the message body. > > > > > > ** Are you going on holiday and want to halt messages? > ** Send a message to access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type the word vacation > ** followed by a space, then the number of days you > ** wish to stop receiving messages for. > ** To leave the Access-UK list, send a message with the Subject:- > ** unsubscribe > ** to access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** Please do not put text or signatures in the message body > ** For other things like setting nomail when on holiday, > ** or digest mode, send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- > ** faq > ** Please do not put text or signatures in the message body. ** Are you going on holiday and want to halt messages? ** Send a message to access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type the word vacation ** followed by a space, then the number of days you ** wish to stop receiving messages for, followed by another ** space and the letter d for days. ** To leave the Access-UK list, send a message with the Subject:- ** unsubscribe ** to access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** Please do not put text or signatures in the message body ** For other things like setting nomail when on holiday, ** or digest mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- ** faq ** Please do not put text or signatures in the message body.