message formatting and pseudo XML [was Re: disk problems: which ATA?]

[Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu>]

On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 23:40 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Sunday 03 July 2011 22:35:08 Ross Boylan wrote:
> > (see original message)
> 
> Not a very productive instruction to those of us who have HTML display turned 
> off.
> 
> Lisi
> 
That's interesting.  The messages are not in html.  However, I did use a
little pseudo-XML (with angle brackets--I'm deliberately not repeating
it here) to distinguish material I copied from the terminal.

I haven't noticed problems in evolution, mutt, or thunderbird.

Any opinions from anyone on whether pseudo-XML is inadvisable?

Lisi, could this be a problem with your particular mail client?

Ross

P.S. I'm about to reboot.  It may be awhile before I'm back :(.