Culled from the vast quarries of ASVS and SDnet.
Quote #185 -- Lord Edam de Fromage -- Quotable Posts
Two medics rushed into the room pulling the crash cart. "My god what happened to him?" "umm, take a look at this message from Jonathan Boyd..it gave him a heart attack" > > Boyd: This is plain text format, if I'm not mistaken. How do I > > get italics? > > Actually, I just though, you could do italics using HTML posting. But we'd > have to kill you then. It's one of the few issues Kynes and I will stand > together on. > > You can represent italics in plain text like this: > > Normal text is like this, but italics text is like _this_ and bold text is > like *this*. Nononono normal text is like this, but italic text is like /this/ whilst bold text is like *this* and underlined text is like _this_, so when you get some stupid fucker who can't quote properly and posts in HTML you show him you're really pissed off by shouting in bold underlined italicised text *_/LIKE THIS/_*. Failing that you spend half and hour drawing a three page ascii art FUCKER that can only be read by turning your screen on its side and scrolling.