On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:39:30PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > Well, just do this. *list netiquette* If I recall correctly, if the > person is set up to get html, that will be in bold. If it is text only > then they just see the *'s. I have noticed in the past that mine has > done this so I guess some other clients would too. Maybe I am just > unique. ;-) > > Sweet huh? lol I'm sure there are other ways to do this to tho. More > than one way to skin a cat in this situation. All the gurus around here > should be able to come up with something.
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>'? ;) W -- I am so happy that Willetta is in my life. What would I do without her? Probably go insane. In fact, I am insanely in love with Willetta, so I am insane right now... but... Sortir en Pantoufles: up 745 days, 4:20
