From: "John Beamish" 

Or, of course, read your newsgroups in Opera which (with some minor
quibbles) is quite good at autohightling previous posts in different
colours and displaying smileys even when in text display.  One of those
minor quibbles:  a refusal to display bold and underlined text when text
display is selected.

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:50:39 -0500, Gary Britt
 wrote:

> Yep, I had that one turned on already.   Pretty *cool!*  :-))
>
> Gary
>
> Tony Williams wrote:
>> Gary Britt wrote:
>>> OK, so this is *bold* then  and this would be _underlined_.
>>  That's how it appears to me in Thunderbird. Others will see it
>> differently but at least they'll get the idea that you're trying for
>> some type of emphasis.
>>  You might need to switch on "Display emoticons as graphics" under
>> display options, in which case you also get the joy of seeing yellow
>> smiley faces :)
>>

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