No smileys in Gmail - possible solution? But why?

[Mountain Goat]

This is hardly of world importance, but if I get an email from AOL France, and there's a smiley, I can copy/paste, and it works in an outgoing Gmail.

But could anyone explain what I am doing (besides wasting your time)? The link is:

http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com ... x/grin.gif

Is it going to be seen only if the recipient is online?

Just curious about the mechanics. Or whether it could be a spam magnet.

MG

[kirkland]

All your doing is copying the code into an email, and as gmail has html emails, then it works. It won`t attract spam or anything, all it is is a picture hosted somewhere.