The following fixes the two aggressive matching of "://" in 5.2.35 and
adds some more mild regexps such that you can read Tom Cristiansen's
messsages.

Patch follows

*** ChangeLog.orig	Sun Jul 14 18:44:48 1996
--- ChangeLog	Mon Jul 15 19:21:23 1996
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*** 1,3 ****
--- 1,8 ----
+ Mon Jul 15 18:11:13 1996  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch (Jan Vroonhof)>
+ 
+ 	* smiley.el (smiley-regexp-alist): Don't match important parts of URLs
+ 	(smiley-nosey-regexp-alist): New variable.
+ 
  Sun Jul 14 18:21:14 1996  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
  
  	* gnus-uu.el (gnus-uu-mark-over): Would bug out.
*** smiley.el.orig	Sun Jul 14 18:40:45 1996
--- smiley.el	Mon Jul 15 19:20:08 1996
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*** 42,53 ****
  (defvar smiley-data-directory (message-xmas-find-glyph-directory "smilies")
    "Location of the smiley faces files.")
  
! (defvar smiley-regexp-alist
    '(("\\(:-*[<«]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceAngry.xpm")
      ("\\(:-+\\]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceGoofy.xpm")
      ("\\(:-*D\\)\\W" 1 "FaceGrinning.xpm")
      ("\\(:-*[)>}»]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceHappy.xpm")
!     ("\\(:-*[/\\\"]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceIronic.xpm")
      ("\\([8|]-*[|Oo%]\\)\\W" 1 "FaceKOed.xpm")
      ("\\([:|]-*#+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceNyah.xpm")
      ("\\(:-*[({]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceSad.xpm")
--- 42,55 ----
  (defvar smiley-data-directory (message-xmas-find-glyph-directory "smilies")
    "Location of the smiley faces files.")
  
! ;; Notice the subtle differences in the regular expessions in the two alists below
! 
! (defvar smiley-deformed-regexp-alist
    '(("\\(:-*[<«]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceAngry.xpm")
      ("\\(:-+\\]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceGoofy.xpm")
      ("\\(:-*D\\)\\W" 1 "FaceGrinning.xpm")
      ("\\(:-*[)>}»]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceHappy.xpm")
!     ("\\(:-*[/\\\"]\\)[^\\]" 1 "FaceIronic.xpm")
      ("\\([8|]-*[|Oo%]\\)\\W" 1 "FaceKOed.xpm")
      ("\\([:|]-*#+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceNyah.xpm")
      ("\\(:-*[({]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceSad.xpm")
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*** 58,65 ****
      ("\\(;-*[>)}»]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceWinking.xpm")
      ("\\(:-*[Vvµ]\\)\\W" 1 "FaceWry.xpm")
      ("\\([:|]-*P\\)\\W" 1 "FaceYukky.xpm"))
!   "A list of regexps to map smilies to real images.")
  
  (defvar smiley-flesh-color "yellow"
    "Flesh color.")
  
--- 60,92 ----
      ("\\(;-*[>)}»]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceWinking.xpm")
      ("\\(:-*[Vvµ]\\)\\W" 1 "FaceWry.xpm")
      ("\\([:|]-*P\\)\\W" 1 "FaceYukky.xpm"))
!   "Normal and deformed faces for smilies.")
  
+ (defvar smiley-nosey-regexp-alist
+   '(("\\(:-+[<«]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceAngry.xpm")
+     ("\\(:-+\\]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceGoofy.xpm")
+     ("\\(:-+D\\)\\W" 1 "FaceGrinning.xpm")
+     ("\\(:-+[}»]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceHappy.xpm")
+     ("\\(:-*)+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceHappy.xpm") ;; The exception that confirms the rule
+     ("\\(:-+[/\\\"]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceIronic.xpm")
+     ("\\([8|]-+[|Oo%]\\)\\W" 1 "FaceKOed.xpm")
+     ("\\([:|]-+#+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceNyah.xpm")
+     ("\\(:-+[({]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceSad.xpm")
+     ("\\(:-+[Oo\*]\\)\\W" 1 "FaceStartled.xpm")
+     ("\\(:-+|\\)\\W" 1 "FaceStraight.xpm")
+     ("\\(:-+p\\)\\W" 1 "FaceTalking.xpm")
+     ("\\(:-+d\\)\\W" 1 "FaceTasty.xpm")
+     ("\\(;-+[>)}»]+\\)\\W" 1 "FaceWinking.xpm")
+     ("\\(:-+[Vvµ]\\)\\W" 1 "FaceWry.xpm")
+     ("\\([:|]-+P\\)\\W" 1 "FaceYukky.xpm"))
+   "Smileys with noses. These get less false matches.")
+ 
+ (defvar smiley-regexp-alist smiley-deformed-regexp-alist
+     "A list of regexps to map smilies to real images.
+       Defaults to the content of smiley-deformed-regexp-alist.
+       An alternative smiley-nose-regexp-alist that
+       matches less aggresively is available.")
+ 
  (defvar smiley-flesh-color "yellow"
    "Flesh color.")
  


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