It's an old plaintext convention to express emphasis similar what
would normally be accomplished with underlining or italicizing* text.
ALL UPPERCASE WOULD BE SHOUTING, YOU DIMWIT.

:-)

Maybe Jochem will provide an RFC reference.

*Italic text was also often noted with /slashes/, but that never
really caught on.

-Kevin

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:10:15 -0400, Tangorre, Michael
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what_is_with_all_the_people_using_underscores_when_they_type?
>
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