Re: Email formatting (was: Yahoo Password Breach ...)

[Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)]

In 4330217043601718.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on
07/17/2012
   at 11:33 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:

There's too much DWIM in that convention

No, there's too much DWYTIM[1] and not enough DWIM. I'd settle for
DWITYTDADTTSGM[2].

I hate it when such busybody mailers corrupt my UNIX path names

I refer to such software as Mollie Malones:

 She died of a faever,
 from which none could save her,
 and that was the end of sweet Mollie Malone

[1] Do what you thought I mean.

[2] Do what I told you to do and don't try to second guess me.

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Re: Email formatting (was: Yahoo Password Breach ...)

[Steve Comstock]

On 7/17/2012 10:33 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:26:39 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:


You're not the only one. I have found that _one_ underscore before
and after a word displays as underline on many (most? all?)
mail clients. So I use that underline as an emphasis while still
eschewing sending HTML email.


There's too much DWIM in that convention (is it possibly in an RFC?)

For example, identifiers in Rexx, C, ... with embedded underscores
(no apologies to John G.) may appear as underscoring part of the name.
The convention extends to:

 _word_:  Underscore word
 *word*:  Boldface word
 /word/:  Italicize word.


Ah, I only realized the first one. Whoo hoo.



I hate it when such busybody mailers corrupt my UNIX path names
by (partly) italicizing them and omitting the underscores.


I agree with you there.



Even as I hated it when M$ Outlook would misinterpret numeric
parameters in example JCL parameters as Q-P and corrupt them.

-- gil




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