On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Keith Keller < kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > On 2013-01-23, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Keith Keller < > > kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > > > >> On 2013-01-22, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at 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 > > > -- > kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //