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Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:39:30PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: |
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>> Well, just do this. *list netiquette* If I recall correctly, if the |
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>> person is set up to get html, that will be in bold. If it is text only |
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>> then they just see the *'s. I have noticed in the past that mine has |
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>> done this so I guess some other clients would too. Maybe I am just |
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>> unique. ;-) |
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>> Sweet huh? lol I'm sure there are other ways to do this to tho. More |
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>> than one way to skin a cat in this situation. All the gurus around here |
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>> should be able to come up with something. |
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> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:05:58PM -0600, Penguin Lover Steven Susbauer squawked: |
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>> Some mail readers convert *asterisks* as bold statements. I believe it |
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>> is the generally accepted way to make a section stand out when dealing |
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>> with plain text. |
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> Ah. Yes, slrn does that also for newsgroups. I've always thought of |
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> that as 'emphasis' and not 'bold', probably because I see it more |
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> often printed with the asterisks then as bold text. So my apologies |
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> that Dale's reference was lost on me. |
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> However, this begs the question: on such a mail reader, if I write: |
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> rm -rf *.* |
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> does it show up just as 'rm -rf <one extra dark dot>'? ;) |
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> W |
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No apologies needed here. You have any idea how many times I have |
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forgot something someone just told me, like two seconds ago. O_O LOL |
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Was sweet tho huh? I finally came up with something worth reading. Can |
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I have two cents back now? I need them, badly. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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