Blocking smileys per-contact

I'd love a way to be able to block smileys on a per-contact basis. A couple
of people I talk to seem to have smileys for virtually every single letter,
which makes a conversation with them an absolute pain, it takes about twice
as long to try and decipher what they're trying to say because most of the
message is animated GIF. If a way to do this could be added to Messenger I'd
be a very happy guy

Greetings,

I'm afraid not. I know what you're saying though, that must be really extremely annoying.

If my contacts started that, I'd probably threaten to block them (no, I consider that a
solution).

One small query though, is the forementioned emoticon abuser a female?

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"seanblee" <> wrote in message
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> I'd love a way to be able to block smileys on a per-contact basis. A couple
> of people I talk to seem to have smileys for virtually every single letter,
> which makes a conversation with them an absolute pain, it takes about twice
> as long to try and decipher what they're trying to say because most of the
> message is animated GIF. If a way to do this could be added to Messenger I'd
> be a very happy guy

guys do the same ;-)

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <> wrote in message
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> Greetings,
>
> I'm afraid not. I know what you're saying though, that must be really
> extremely annoying.
>
> If my contacts started that, I'd probably threaten to block them (no, I
> consider that a solution).
>
> One small query though, is the forementioned emoticon abuser a female?
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
> "seanblee" <> wrote in message
> news:4CF37CF0-4845-44EB-AA68-...
>> I'd love a way to be able to block smileys on a per-contact basis. A couple
>> of people I talk to seem to have smileys for virtually every single letter,
>> which makes a conversation with them an absolute pain, it takes about twice
>> as long to try and decipher what they're trying to say because most of the
>> message is animated GIF. If a way to do this could be added to Messenger I'd
>> be a very happy guy
>
>

Hi Jonathan,

> One small query though, is the forementioned emoticon abuser a female?

Funnily enough...

Maybe an idea for a future feature then, who knows!


Sean




"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm afraid not. I know what you're saying though, that must be really extremely annoying.
>
> If my contacts started that, I'd probably threaten to block them (no, I consider that a
> solution).
>
> One small query though, is the forementioned emoticon abuser a female?