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Mystery of the Email J Finally Solved

by BRadmin on 1/28/11, 11:37 PM with 7 comments

• by mukyu on 1/29/11, 12:21 AM

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

• by JacobAldridge on 1/28/11, 11:51 PM

  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!

• by wglb on 1/29/11, 3:07 AM

  Intense.