From: "Robert Comer" 

That's how I've always done it.  Some newsreaders even understand that and
change how it's viewed by the reader.  (Not OE6 without an add-in though)

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Bob Comer





"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:4558d40a{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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