Re: No longer getting back spam reporting link emails

Michael Fullerton wrote:
> I
> guess complaining here works. (:

A word on smileys, since you make yours like a friend of mine who is a
.nz kiwi  --  which is 'upside down' or 'left handed' as well as
'abbreviated'

The most popular smiley is made with the eyes on the left, a nose, and
then the smile :-)

I most often use a winking smiley ;-)

The ever-popular and lovely wife, mother, radiohost and computer
columnist Kim Komando has been known to use the abbreviated smiley,
which is missing a nose, except Kim made hers in the normal right-handed
fashion.  :)

I searched thru' Kim's website and newsletter archives to see if I could
find an example of the 'short' noseless smiley, but I couldn't.  She has
written articles and made giant lists of different emoticons in which
she displays the 'correct' or classic smiley :-)  so perhaps the copy of
the KK newsletter which a friend of mine sent me with the little
noseless smiley was an error or something.

So, in summary, I would encourage a right handed classic smiley -- a
left handed one causes the parenthesis to look like a frown or unsmiley,
and then the emoticon 'reader' has to re-orient themselves about the
smile vs frown based on the eyes which are missing a nose.  Overall, the
confusion interferes with the instant 'impact' of an emoticon.  An
emoticon is supposed to convey an 'immediate' message in a picture, not
a sense of confused interpretation of a 'mixed message'.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin