From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 13 23:29:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C81437B40B for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:29:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0278.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.23] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17IkaY-00069b-00; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:29:38 -0700 Message-ID: <3D098D2C.23531FEA@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:29:00 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Brett Glass , Ryan Thompson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who is this Charlie guy in /etc/passwd? References: <20020613080114.N506-100000@ren.sasknow.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020612214125.02fa4dc0@localhost> <20020613080114.N506-100000@ren.sasknow.com> <20020613163826.A1543@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20020613140653.00d64340@localhost> <20020613223435.A23313@lpt.ens.fr> <3D093A24.C90113D8@mindspring.com> <20020614061848.GA276@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Terry Lambert said on Jun 13, 2002 at 17:34:44: > > I tend to use smileys so that non-English speakers do not become > > unnecessarily offended when humor was intended, > > Actually, your smileys tend to be part of your signature, so it's > impossible to figure out the context anyway... It depends. I have a lot of internal humor. Generally, I will signal humor, unless it's a practical joke, by putting a "smiley" in context. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message