Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
The communities I hang out in
(and I was on Usenet since 1984 or so, back when I could still read The
Entire Feed) tended to stick to *bold* and _whatever_; I didn't see
/these sort of italics/ much, partially because it conflicts with
search string notation, I suspect.
FWIW, [[Crossmark]] uses *boldface*, /italicized/, _underlined_ and
Mozilla Thunderbird automatically recognizes the same syntax in
plaintext mail.
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