emoting (Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines)

[Michael Brown]

> Some clients (Gabber, JabberIM and <plug>Marvin</plug>) support IRC
> style "/me" emotes as in:
>
> /me does some emoting
>
> which would be shown in a different color as:
>
> * tom does some emoting

I've never really used IRC...can someone tell me what the point of these
are?  I've always wondered.  For people who can't remember their names?

Michael.