On 7/17/2012 9:21 AM, McKown, John wrote:
For me (and I think that I'm the only one who does it), it is just for
EMPHASIS, instead of capitalizing or doing a <em>BOLD</em>. It is not any kind of real or defacto standard. Just an oddity on my part. Due mainly to my hatred of using HTML formatted email. It's not that I actually dislike HTML in general. I just despise some people's choices of fonts (like 6 point script, which I just can't read well) and wacky use of color (why do people use light yellow on light blue? like the nitwit who, years ago, put her font color to dark blue on black and the complained that she couldn't read the screen any more.)
You're not the only one. I have found that _one_ underscore before and after a word displays as underline on many (most? all?) mail clients. So I use that underline as an emphasis while still eschewing sending HTML email. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our entire DB2 curriculum at: http://www.trainersfriend.com/DB2_and_VSAM_courses/DB2curric.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
