Thanks for the suggestion! At the time I filed the linked issue, I tried some other variations, like underscores ("________") and found that they all triggered the Markdown “heading” behavior. So changing to underscores wouldn’t achieve the goal of avoiding accidental markdown headings.
Also, I’d definitely recommend adding -q
to your cronjob so it doesn’t send you email unless there’s something important like an error. Otherwise, I’m guessing you’ll start ignoring the cron emails after a while because you get them nightly and there’s usually nothing to report.