[Graham W.]

Hi Team;

This forum is probably not the appropriate place to ask this question, but I
have tried to find the answer elsewhere without much success, and because
I've had great assistance from you guys in the past, I thought I'd put you to
task to see if someone might be able to help.
I'm beginning to see the punctuation symbol :-) more often now, mainly
used in emails and text messages. I have to be honest in saying I've only
seen it a few times and was wondering if it is a proper punctuation mark, or
perhaps just a trend thing; it appears to be used as an introductory symbol.
I seem to recall reading somewhere not to use the bracket after the colon?

Kind regards

Graham