In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
 Laurent Mirguet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I noticed that it was possible to format a plain text email to make it 
> appear in *bold* or in /italic/ _for example_.

Yep.

> Does these features comes from a specification (RFC, ...) ? or is this 
> mozilla-specific ?
> 
> Is there a list somewhere of these formatting features ?

No RFC and no formal specification -- as for a list of formatting
features, for what you're talking about, that's it: bold, italic,
underline.  There's spoiler chars but that's a bit different.

BTW -- this newsreader (Thoth) has the same ability (although it only
does it on single words, i.e. no spaces)

-- 
J.B. Moreno

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