From: Gary Britt 

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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