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From:Anton Reinauer
Date:16 Sep 99 at 02:39:42
Subject:Re: GTText gadgets

On 14-Sep-99, Mikkel L�kke wrote:

>> Does this happen with other email programs too?

> Here's the thing. Sometime in the eighties (AFAIR), on bulletin boards
> and esp. on FIDOnet a great standard was born (It all started on UNIX
> systems then I'm not quite sure where it came from before FIDO, but
> people have suggested UNIX). The Idea was that you could change the
> type of the text printed by enclosing your words in special
> charecters, *, _, /, which would set the text of the word to *Bold*,
> _Underlined_, and /Italics/. (The #Colour# thing wqas added much
> later) Problem is YAM doesn't interpret them correctly, try loading
> them in SPOT or Thor (the mails) and they should turn out right.

It all displays fine here in Yam! (V2.0)



Anton Reinauer <anton@ww.co.nz>

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