On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:05:58 -0600
Steven Susbauer <stupendousst...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Some mail readers convert *asterisks* as bold statements. I believe it
> is the generally accepted way to make a section stand out when dealing
> with plain text.

Yes.  The other two kinds of conventional pseudo-markup are /slashes/
for italics and _underscores_ for underlining.  Even with clients that
don't use them to change rendering, they're easy to pick up by eye when
reading the plain text.

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