On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote:

Finally a personal point: PLEASE don't implement smilies/emoticons as part of the forum. The WINE mailing list often contains messages from the linked forum that end like this:

I find the bit in square brackets, which is an e-mail representation of an emoticon, extremely irritating. IMO it adds nothing to what should be a technical discussion.

...not to mention what the emoticon parser does to code samples...

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