Posted by Justin on 11/16/84 11:36

Ian Gregory wrote on [4 Jan 2006 21:35:40 GMT]:
> On 2006-01-04, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>
>> different newsgroups maybe? Of course, if someone uses slashes and
>> someone else uses underscores, it's to bring attention to what's between
>> them; however, we really don't know what the poster had meant by them,
>> do we--and does it really matter whether I emphasize with /slashes/,
>> with _underscores_, or with *asterisks*? You know that it's for
>> emphasis.
>
> Well reading your post in slrn (text mode newsreader) the word
> "slashes" in the above paragraph appears as normal text, the
> word "underscores" is underlined, and the word "asterisks" is
> in bold. Since slrn makes a pretty good attempt to do what is

I am also using SLRN, I see the /slashes/ word as highlighted, the
_underlined_ word as highlighted differently and the *asterisked* word
as highlighted differently still

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