boring emoticon

[David Balazic]

Ethan Blanton wrote:
 
> manulonch at hotmail.com spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > is it possible to hide received emoticons ?
> > Some of people have to much emoticons in place of some word and it's
> > impossible to understand what the say.
> 
> Open up the account settings for your MSN account from the Tools |
> Accounts dialog, click on 'Advanced', and uncheck 'Show 
> custom smilies'.

Can this be done per chat ? (or even per chat line ?)
Otherwise you have to chosse between:
 - you can see text, but can't see images (jokes etc...)
 - you see images all over, and miss text (as in original post)

Regards,
David