Getting Started Guide

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Personalizing E-mail Messages
Electronic Body Language
There are many ways to personalize your e-mail
messages.You can use smileys, also known as emoticons,
which are expressions you create from the characters on your
keyboard. A few popular ones include:
To keep messages short, there are some abbreviations you can
use:
Emoticon Meaning
:-) Happy
:-( Sad
:-o Surprised
:-@ Screaming
:-I Indifferent
:-e Disappointed
:-< Mad
:-D Laughing
;-) Winking
Abbreviations Meaning
<BTW> By the way
<G> Grinning
<IMHO> In my humble opinion
<ROTFL> Rolling on the floor laughing
<LOL> Laughing out loud
Personalizing
E-Mail
Messages
In a telephone or
face-to-face conversation,
you read the other person's
tone of voice or body
language to get clues about
how they feel. These
emotional cues are absent
from e-mail. Humor,
especially sarcasm, is
especially difficult to pick
up in an e-mail message.
To help fill in the gaps,
some symbols and
acronyms have come into
use.