From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jul 21 2:43:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from theshell.com (arsenic.theshell.com [63.236.138.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43AEF37B403 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 02:43:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pavalos@theshell.com) Received: (qmail 16618 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2001 09:43:35 -0000 Received: from radium.theshell.com (HELO tequila) (root@63.236.138.3) by arsenic.theshell.com with SMTP; 21 Jul 2001 09:43:35 -0000 From: "Peter Avalos" To: "'Murray Stokely'" , Subject: RE: emoticons in the Handbook Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 04:43:31 -0500 Message-ID: <054301c111c9$9c142870$d09cfc9e@tequila> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <20010721022552.A61117@meow.osd.bsdi.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Emoticons do not belong in any kind of formal document except when explaining what an emoticon is. I'd prefer to get rid of all emoticons in all versions of the handbook. --Pete > Does anyone mind if Chern and I add emoticons to our list > of cleanup items? It appears that at least one reviewer was > put off by our liberal use of them : > http://www.daemonnews.org/200103/review_FBSD_Handbook.html Do people prefer to see ";)" in HTML output? We could of course add an entity that only displays emoticons for HTML output if that would be desired. Thoughts? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message