Re: A Real puzzler

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 I'm using Pine. You must have seen the smiley
 face from the start because you removed both.

 MWP

 P.S.: ;-) Is a smile and a wink.

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On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Robert Holmgren wrote:

> ** Reply to message from "M.W. Poirier"
>  on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:56:16 -0400
> (EDT)
>
> Looking back at your message, I do see ";-)" at the end of both
> of your sentences. Is ;-) supposed to represent a "smiley
> face"? That subtlety eludes me. Anyway, this (like XyWrite
> itself) is a text-based maillist. You gotta SAY smiley face --
> convey smiles with artful words. Otherwise you risk being
> misinterpreted. I suspect -- correct me if wrong -- you're
> composing messages with the facilities of HTML, but you have
> your email client set to send (to this group anyway) text only?
>
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> Robert Holmgren
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