Re: Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

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On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:42:52 -0500
Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:39:30PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked:

> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:05:58PM -0600, Penguin Lover Steven
> Susbauer squawked:
> > Some mail readers convert *asterisks* as bold statements. I believe
> > it is the generally accepted way to make a section stand out when
> > dealing with plain text.
>
> Ah. Yes, slrn does that also for newsgroups. I've always thought of
> that as 'emphasis' and not 'bold', probably because I see it more
> often printed with the asterisks then as bold text. So my apologies
> that Dale's reference was lost on me.
>
> However, this begs the question: on such a mail reader, if I write:
>
>   rm -rf *.*
>
> does it show up just as 'rm -rf <one extra dark dot>'? ;)

The mangling of asterisks which aren't meant to be markup is a pretty
good reason to turn the feature off, IMO.  But slrn honors a way around
it ... by introducing more markup, the so-called verbatim marks.  I
think some other clients now honor them also, though slrn documentation
still says it's the only one.

<http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/slrn-manual-6.html#process_verbatim_marks>

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