On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 09:01 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > 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... > I certainly see what you mean about typed smileys, but I strongly suspect the WINE forum uses a row of clickable icons at the end of the message entry area that appends a "[smiley]" to the message.
I should also have added that it may be a good idea to convert input into a pseudo message by making headers from the user's account details and subject line and to pass the result through SA before posting it to the forum and this mail list. If nothing else, it should reduce the moderator's workload. I wish unmoderated lists, such as SourceForge and WINE Users appear to be, would do this too. It would not appear all that difficult to do. Martin
