"HTML" Posting Tags, was Top-posting shenanigans

[Doc Shipley]

Marvin Johnston wrote:

> I've never seen a list of "html" tags used in messages online, and the
> only one that comes to mind is "<rant> ... </rant>." Are there others in
> common usage? It might be interesting to have a list much in the same
> vein as the lists of emotocons and commonly used abbreviations. They can
> certainly help to add context and character to a message (like Jay's
> <ListOwnerMode Off> ... "html" tag.)


   I see them used pretty much anywhere "non-verbal" context or 
connotation is needed.  Some examples:

Unbridled joy:

<Special Ed>
   YAAYYYYY!
</Special Ed>


"I know I'm a god":

<Elvis>
   Thankya, thankya.  Thank ya verra much.
</Elvis>


Extreme chastisement:

<Emily LaTella>
   Never mind
</Emily>

   All these examples are popular quotes, but there's also <rant>, 
<quote> for long quoted passages, <beg>, <whine>, whatever.

</pedantic>  8-)


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