From: Gregg N 

On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:14:23 -0500, Gary Britt wrote:

> A while back somebody posted to me that using * as in *Bold This* provides a
> reader with noted emphasis and in some programs like Thunderbird and Word,
> etc. the words enclosed by * * actually appear as bold.  Also, I remember
> _Italic_ turns stuff into italics in word, but what is the code for
underline.
>
> In this same message the codes for underline and italics were also
> mentioned, but I've lost my reference to them.  Could somebody please post
> the equivalent codes to *This is Bold* for italics and underline?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary

None of this is standard; it depends on the mail or news client software.
Thunderbird, if so configured, interprets the following formatting
characters:

   _Underline_
   *Bold*
   /Italics/

Thunderbird also can draw emoticons like :-) as an actual graphic.

If you want to do bold/italics/underline in a more portable way, use HTML
formatting, but only for private e-mail and news servers, not mailing lists
or USENET groups.

Gregg

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