On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Keith Keller <
kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2013-01-23, SilverTip257 <silvertip257@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Keith Keller <
> > kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2013-01-22, SilverTip257 <silvertip257@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I composed with HTML and bolded */10
> >>
> >> Some people consider it rude to use HTML on a mailing list. And, as
> >> we've just seen, it can actually be converted to something incorrect.
> >
> > I realize you are likely in no way being confrontational here.
> >
> > No surprise, another item for sticklers to complain about.
>
> I don't think being sure that what you write is syntactically correct,
> and won't break on the OP's system, is being a "stickler". If using
> HTML formatting actually produces something incorrect when a conversion
> to plain text is done, that's not a nitpick, it's just wrong, and it
> could screw up another OP's system much worse.
>
>
Agreed, but in this case cron is just going to harp about it not being
valid.
No harm, no foul.
A lesson learned (HTML nonsense) and not to be inadvertently done again if
I can prevent it.
> > I'll be most certain to make every attempt not to make use of HTML
> features
> > in the future. I figured I should explain why my message unintentionally
> > showed up with asterisks earlier, but that was a can-o-worms. :(
>
> Perhaps, but if you saw that your message actually gave incorrect advice
> to the OP, you should have corrected it as soon as you saw it. It might
> not be in time to help the OP, but it would be in time to help other
> people browsing or searching the mailing list archives.
>
>
On your reply I did (shown as plain text) and owned up to the botched info
on account of formatting.
> > Now if Google/Gmail could let things be -- and not change my settings
> back
> > to HTML from the last time I set it to plain text ... plain text is no
> > longer an option via the webui, swell.
>
> Plain text is the default for me on most messages, but gmail
> configuration is certainly offtopic for the CentOS list.
>
>
Please let this exchange back-and-forth of messages die.
I bloody said why the asterisks were inserted and it was not _intentional_.
I loathe that this happened because this is a total waste of your and my
time.
This sets a precedence for me - read on the list and don't reply often (or
at all).
Sorry to all innocent bystanders.
> --keith
>
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