From: Gary Britt 

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 ;)
>>

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5