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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 17 Sep 1998.
Re: About rendering ascii code in a .txt medium

Re: About rendering ascii code in a .txt medium

Hi Nate / DAC,

On September 16 at 19:06 you wrote:

> I also dislike the use of HTML for EMail and News - It would,
however, be
> nice if there were some sort of standard to specify things such as
color,
> underline, and other attributes, that works in all Email and News. 
Alas,
> there isn't, so this debate will probably continue to eternity :-/

Actually, there is. On another medium called Fidonet it is quite
common to
use asteriks for bold *like this*, underscores for underlining _like
this_
and slashes for italics /like this/. I don't think this causes too
much
annoyance to people who read it without a program that converts the 
asteriks for bold-style text. My newsreader is capable but then again,
I'm
using a superior Amiga newsreader ;-).

Regards,

Robert
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Subject: Re: About rendering ascii code in a .txt medium
Date: 1998/09/17
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