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Agreed. There's no question that the smiley face in response to the consequences makes the intent perfectly clear.

I have to disagree because there 16 bits isn't enough to encode ACK of the intent of the original email. To me, he's saying "Hey, look what I made Eric do!" which is undoubtably more satisfying than getting some line level employee fired.

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