emoticons

[Natalie Maynor]

Frank Abate wrote:

> FYI, I got Larry's email with a true smiley face and frowny face at the =
> bottom.  I work on a Compaq laptop and use MS Outlook Express for email.

It was a capital L for me.  But then I read mail online using Unix mailx
(and have given up the battle of asking people to *please* tell their
mail programs to stick to ascii -- I'm resigned to having a bunch of
garbage appended to e-mail from people whose settings are to send
everything in html).
   --Natalie Maynor (maynor at ra.msstate.edu)