From: Gary Britt 

They were adding emphasis to the word as a substitute.  Just didn't know
such things were ever really read and used by a word processor or email
program.

Gary

Ellen K. wrote:
>  What did you think in the past when you saw people put asterisks or
> underscores around words?
>
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:24:17 -0500, Gary Britt
>  wrote in message
:
>
>> I see these conventions can't be used together as the
"thanks" below didn't
>> come out bold-italic.  /Oh Well/.
>>
>> I had never heard of these conventions before, so this was something new for
me.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> Gary Britt wrote:
>>> Came out just *fine* in my Thunderbird display.  The bold was bold and
>>> the underline was underlined.   I also like Thunderbird's ability to
>>> receive plain text from a news group or wherever but display it in
>>> proportional spaced html style text.  Much nicer to read that way.
>>>
>>> */Thanks,/*
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> Gary Britt wrote:
>>>> OK, so this is *bold* then  and this would be _underlined_.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>>> Tony Williams wrote:
>>>>> Gary Britt wrote:
>>>>>> When composing in plain text with Thunderbird how
do you change the
>>>>>> color or bold or italic of a particular word??
>>>>> It's really pretty limited and I don't think you can
do colour. I
>>>>> just enclose sections in asterisks for *bold*, forward
slashes for
>>>>> /italics/ and underscores for _underline_. No
guarantees that these
>>>>> informal conventions will be understood by the recipients'
>>>>> newsreaders, but at least they're readable by anything.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you do feel the need to talk about politics there's
always CAPS
>>>>> LOCK ;)
>>>>>
>

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