From: steve harley
i _am_ using Thunderbird; i had noticed in passing that in Thunderbird /slashes/ make italics, but only when in the HTML view, and Tbird sometimes fails to terminate the italics correctly; but i more often use the plain text view; nonetheless by mentioning this you literally made me rethink my old-school assumption that the _underscore_ was the best way to indicate italics in plain text; each has its plusses -- /slashes/ are a better mnemonic for italics, but underlining (kin to underscores, but can't be done in plain text) was the equivalent to italics during the reign of the typewriter
I'm using Thunderbird as well, and when reading in plain text view the /italics/, the _underscores_ and the *bold* all show up.
They don't show up in the composition window when you're writing, and I'd never noticed before the quoted text doesn't show them either.
Now I'll have to look to see if the "quoted" /italics/, _underscores_ and *bold* show up in the plain text view when reading.
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