At 04:27 PM 2/1/97 -0700, Chris Davies wrote:
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	I would like to apologize to anyone who was offended by my
humourously intended sixth question.  I should have put a smilie after it,
so that people knew that it should not be taken as a serious question.

 
  Please, no more smilies! This phenomenon is ruining readers' abilities to
  recognize and appreciate irony, satire, and sarcasm. Will we see smilies
  added to on-line versions of "A Modest Proposal", or put into the collections
  of Steve Wright jokes? Also, Miss Manners does not care for them. 

                                                       TTFN,
                                                       dml