use of html now acceptable ?

[cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org]

> On November 27, 2003 12:04 pm, Keith Mastin wrote:
> > No HTML,m Wrap below 80 lines... that's the TLUG standard. My
> > understanding of emoticons is that they are a graphic, where a smiley is
> > ASCII.
> 
> I imagine what happened here is that the original person who
> complained has a mail client that turns ":)" into a graphic and though
> that it was being sent that way (as a graphic) in HTML by the
> sender. I know Mozilla Thunderbird does this "out of the box" and I
> had to explicitly shut off this behaviour in
> Tools->Options->Display->Display emoticons as graphics.

XEmacs will render emoticons as graphics, which has nothing to do with
HTML...

Ditto for most instant messaging systems.
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