"foobar" <f...@bar.com> wrote in message news:ii62n0$1r3i$1...@digitalmars.com... > > 1. common human markup such as: _foo_ (underline), *foo* (bold) etc, >
I've never been much of a fan of that. Actually that's one of the things I didn't like about Thunderbird when I tried it: it kept replacing *'s and _'s with formatting even what I was in the supposed "plaintext" mode. Of course, if the *'s and _'s stay intact when the text is bolded/etc, then I can't say I'd care quite so much.