http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/4543 The smiley face and other emotional icons, known as emoticons, have given people a concise way in e-mail and other electronic messages of expressing sentiments that otherwise would be difficult to detect. Language experts defined them as symbols composed of punctuation marks, designed to express some form of emotion in the form of a human face (in computing, of course). MSN Emoticons are a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon. Everybody is familiar with MSN Smileys, on the Internet. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:50:26 PST en-us http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/4543 http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/4543 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:50:26 PST