Mystery of the Email J Finally Solved

Mystery of the Email J Finally Solved(chrisjean.com)

14 points by BRadmin 15 years ago | 7 comments

mukyu 15 years ago |

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/23/60474... where i originally heard about it

georgemcbay 15 years ago | |

Also where I heard about it, and Chen's page is exactly 10 billion times more entertaining than the original link for this thread.

JacobAldridge 15 years ago |

This was only a brief mystery to me - my Outlook Reading Pane rendered it as a J, while opening the email showed the smiley face.

I only hope the people who send smileys in corporate emails one day learn that they're usually not received at the other end. Then they might STOP DOING IT!

tptacek 15 years ago | |

Funnier still are the people who assume they can "recall" their email once it's sent (a feature that does work on Exchange, but obviously not in SMTP). At one previous employer, HR accidentally CC'd me on a mail suggesting my salary was out of the official comp bands. Recall! Recall! Recall!

ejdyksen 15 years ago | | |

A bit of trivia about recall:

Recall is actually not even a feature of Exchange, only Outlook. Exchange sees the messages as normal emails.

Thus, if the receiving party doesn't have Outlook open, the message won't get recalled.

vsync 15 years ago | | |

> my salary was out of the official comp bands

Higher or lower?

wglb 15 years ago |

Intense.