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		lkramer on July 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email ... This reminds of when Microsoft released a comic strip chat client for IRC. You would have these people popping into IRC channels with all kinds of metadata about their character. It was fine for them, but super annoying for everybody with a normal client. I guess it was designed to be used with MSN servers, but people used them to connect to the "regular" ones as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat

skibz on July 17, 2024 [–]

> Microsoft Comic Chat installed a custom font, Comic Sans MS, that users could use in other applications and documents.

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