From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 13 7:38:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D167B37B410 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:38:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g5DEcRp66159 ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:38:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id QAA04650 ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:38:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:38:26 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Ryan Thompson Cc: Brett Glass , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who is this Charlie guy in /etc/passwd? Message-ID: <20020613163826.A1543@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Ryan Thompson , Brett Glass , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020612214125.02fa4dc0@localhost> <20020613080114.N506-100000@ren.sasknow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020613080114.N506-100000@ren.sasknow.com>; from ryan@sasknow.com on Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:20:34AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 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 Ryan Thompson said on Jun 13, 2002 at 08:20:34: > Ha! My humor detector is still forwarding packets. > > Maybe *yours* is the one having trouble sensing the media type? :-) > > Repeat after me: > > :-) means "smile". If it was indeed funny (Brett's mail was, imo), a smiley would be unnecessary. ``I cringe when I see them,'' says the movie critic Roger Ebert, a hatitue of CompuServe, interviewed via e-mail. On the other hand, he adds, ``smileys might be a real help for today's students, raised on TV and unskilled at spotting irony without a laugh track.'' ``...the hateful :) which means 'just kidding' and is used by people who would dot their i's with little circles and should have their eyes dotted with Drano.'' -- Penn Jillette ``The smiley is an attack on writers and readers alike. If it is funny, it doesn't need a smiley. If is not funny, a smiley won't help it. The smiley teaches writers that anything they write will pass as humor as long as it is punctuated properly. It teaches readers that they must ignore their better judgment, and look only at punctuation to determine intent.'' -- Jim Showalter (quotes I came across long ago, can't vouch for authenticity but I liked them) R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message