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From: russ@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Russell Reynolds)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: anne.jones
Message-ID: <35419@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 27 Jul 89 23:48:24 GMT
References: <TALE.89Jul27144615@imagine.pawl.rpi.edu> <43418@bbn.COM>
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In article <43418@bbn.COM> mesard@BBN.COM (Wayne Mesard) writes:
>
>:-)
>
>Wayne();
>
>P.S.  I see this ":-)" a lot in mail messages on this bboard, what does
>it mean?

	It's a sideways smiley face.  There are a lot of variations of
   this.  ;-) <--winking smiley face  :-( <--frowny face  :-{) <--smiley
   face with moustache  etc.

>
>P.P.S.  Can anyone tell me how to talk to my friend on his computer at
>Carnegie Mellon?

	If you don't know his mail address, send mail to postmaster@cs.cmu.edu
   giving your friend's full name and any other info that you think might
   help and ask for your friend's complete mailing address.  This is assuming
   that your friend goes to school there or is somehow associated with the
   computer science department.
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