From: Ellen K. 

 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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