Willie Wong wrote: > 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 >
No apologies needed here. You have any idea how many times I have forgot something someone just told me, like two seconds ago. O_O LOL Was sweet tho huh? I finally came up with something worth reading. Can I have two cents back now? I need them, badly. Dale :-) :-)
