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Willie Wong wrote: |
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> Starting a new thread because this is getting way off topic (both |
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> re: gentoo or re: the topic under discussion in the other thread) |
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> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:25:12PM -0600, Penguin Lover ??Q?? squawked: |
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>> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:05:58 -0600 |
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>> Steven Susbauer <stupendoussteve@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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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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>> Yes. The other two kinds of conventional pseudo-markup are /slashes/ |
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>> for italics and _underscores_ for underlining. Even with clients that |
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>> don't use them to change rendering, they're easy to pick up by eye when |
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>> reading the plain text. |
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> Okay, my tongue was firmly in my cheek in the hypothetical question I |
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> just posted in the old thread. But now seriously: is there anyway of |
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> telling the recipient client to NOT change rendering, other than telling |
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> the recipient to turn off rendering changes in the mail client? I feel |
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> that this is a more legitimate question because it is quite possible |
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> that the answer to some question posted on a linux mailing list |
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> invoves a one-line sed command, or even a directory listing. Is it |
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> possible to tell clients which change rendering that, yes, I really |
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> mean /root/.rev* and not <em>root</em>.rev* ? |
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> W |
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<joke> But I like all the smiley faces people post when emerge fails. |
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I saw one a little bit ago. A lot of little winks. Sort of makes me |
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think portage is flirting with me. ROFLMAO <joke/> |
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I do see the need for that. The forums sort of does the same thing when |
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you use the "code" thing. I don't get on the forums much anymore, maybe |
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a occasional search for gossip or something. It is a interesting |
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question tho. I guess since Seamonkey converts them over, I don't |
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notice them the same way as a text only reader would. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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