On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Keith Keller < kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
On 2013-01-23, SilverTip257 silvertip257@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Keith Keller < kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
On 2013-01-22, SilverTip257 silvertip257@gmail.com 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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