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Posted by Graeme Wall on 10/17/21 11:36
In message <michelle-B2F9FA.12475104012006@news.west.cox.net>
Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> In article <BFE1CBFF.1412EA%chrisridd@mac.com>,
> Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:
>
> > > Bingo! And that carried over to text-based electronics messaging.
> > > But
> >
> > Did it? I can only remember slashes being used for italics, and I've
> > been on the net for quite a while now. It doesn't matter much really
> > just as long as we don't use <i>something else</i> ;-)
>
> I've been online (local BBS systems, Fidonet, Compuserve, etc.) since
> 1984, and on the internet since 1990; it hasn't been until very recently
> that I've seen anyone use slashes to represent italics.
>
What does your newsreader show the following as: /italic/ _underline_ ?
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