In <a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea0115baa1...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom>,
on 07/17/2012
at 10:21 AM, "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> said:
>It is not any kind of real or defacto standard.
Actually, surrounding a word with _ or * as a means of emphasis *is* a
de facto standard on the Internet.
>Due mainly to my hatred of using HTML formatted email.
Text/html delenda est!
>I just despise some people's choices of fonts
Even where use of HTML is reasonable, it is rarely reasonable to use
anything but semantic markup, and specifying color or fonts is
*guarantied* to cause problems.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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