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From: dsn@rochester.UUCP (Dana S. Nau)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Re: The new hugging symbol
Message-ID: <11454@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 22:15:27 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  7 22:15:27 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Sep-85 04:28:19 EDT
References: <1526@peora.UUCP> <828@abnji.UUCP> <260@steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: dsn@rochester.UUCP (Dana S. Nau)
Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept.
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In article <260@steinmetz.UUCP> hammond@steinmetz.UUCP (Steve Hammond) writes:
>
>I have used ()* to express a hug and a kiss to an xSO that I used to
>send a lot of mail to.  Also, I used ;-( to show a frown and a tear.
>-- 
>  Steve Hammond   arpa: hammond@GE   uucp: {...edison!}steinmetz!hammond

Gee... I thought that in written correspondence, "X X X" was conventionally
used to mean "hugs", and "O O O" was conventionally used to mean "kisses".
Isn't anyone else familiar with this?

By the way, I used to be dsn@tove.  I'm currently on sabbatical at U. of
Rochester.