[Coco] ASCII art in mail/news clients

[jimcox at miba51.com]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:26:33 EST
  KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 3/22/04 4:44:13 PM Eastern Standard 
>Time, 
>robert.gault at worldnet.att.net writes:
>
>> As a point of information, smileys as used by Mozilla do 
>>not put 
>>  graphics in a message. The normal text ASCII :  ) is 
>>placed in the 
>>  message (can be automated) and the e-mail program 
>>displays a graphic 
>>  icon in place of the ASCII graphic.
>
>An email client that automatically detects emoticon 
>character sequences and 
>substitutes a little graphic, is a sure sign that some 
>programmers have way too 
>much time on their hands, which would be better spent 
>surfing 
>rec.arts.startrek :-)
>

If the Microserfs spent as much time writing good code as 
they do glorifying themselves in Easter Eggs, there would 
be less bloat in MS products and they might actually be 
worth the cost.

Jim