* -- The asterick symbols are sometimes used to emphasize or denote importance in postings; they are also used as a "wildcard" by some operating systems for batch operations.
:-) -- An emoticon. See emoticon. For examples see Computing Acronyms: Emoticons.
~ -- The tilde symbol is used to signify the home directory of an account (business or personal) within a Web site's domain. For example: http://bton.com/~stephie/.
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