Re: ASCII convention

Jonathan Buss wrote:

> My newsreader (Mozilla 1.7) displays the character string "*foo*" in a
> bold font, whether or not the text purports to be HTML. Likewise
> "_foo_" in an underscore font, and "/foo/" in an italic font. In all
> three cases, the end-markers appear, in the corresponding font (the
> quote marks don't appear -- those are mine).
>
> Is this a bug or a feature? Take your pick, or ignore the question.

It's a bug, and underlined print is an abomination.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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