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Re: Emphasis notation in plain-text mail (was Re: Server setup)

From Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Emphasis notation in plain-text mail (was Re: Server setup)
Date 2021-06-14 12:50 +0200
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On 06/13/2021 04:36 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2021-06-13 at 17:30, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> ...
>>
>> Regarding the asterisks, I used them in many text to make emphasis,
>> including in some text that go out in printed form. Started doing so
>> when I was still in university and transcribing my notes after the
>> day.
> 
> Certainly better than the current apparent trend of using quotation
> marks to do so...
> 

Those of us who learned to read and write in the 50's may interpret a 
word surrounded by quotation marks as having a different, or even 
contrary, meaning compared to a dictionary's entry.

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Server setup Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-06-13 01:10 +0200
  Re: Server setup Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2021-06-13 15:30 +0200
    Re: Server setup Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-06-13 19:00 +0200
      Re: Server setup Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-06-13 20:00 +0200
        Re: Server setup john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2021-06-13 20:20 +0200
          Re: Server setup Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-06-13 20:30 +0200
          Re: Server setup john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2021-06-13 21:00 +0200
            Re: Server setup Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2021-06-13 21:40 +0200
              Re: Server setup Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-06-13 21:50 +0200
                Re: Server setup Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-13 22:00 +0200
                Re: Server setup Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-06-13 22:50 +0200
                Re: Server setup Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-06-13 22:50 +0200
                Emphasis notation in plain-text mail (was Re: Server setup) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-06-13 23:00 +0200
                Re: Emphasis notation in plain-text mail (was Re: Server setup) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-06-13 23:40 +0200
                Re: Emphasis notation in plain-text mail (was Re: Server setup) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-14 12:50 +0200
                Re: Emphasis notation in plain-text mail (was Re: Server setup) Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-06-15 00:00 +0200
                Re: Emphasis notation in plain-text mail (was Re: Server setup) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-06-13 23:40 +0200
          Re: Server setup deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-06-14 00:20 +0200
        Re: Server setup deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-06-14 00:30 +0200
          Re: Server setup Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-14 12:30 +0200
        Re: Server setup David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-14 17:30 +0200
          Re: Server setup Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-06-14 18:40 +0200
            Re: Server setup Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-06-14 22:00 +0200
              Re: Server setup Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-06-14 22:40 +0200
                Re: Server setup Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-06-14 23:20 +0200
                Re: Server setup Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-14 23:30 +0200
                Re: Server setup Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-06-15 00:20 +0200
                Re: Server setup Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2021-06-15 03:50 +0200
                Re: Server setup Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-15 06:30 +0200
                Re: Server setup David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-15 07:10 +0200
                Re: Server setup Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-16 09:30 +0200
                Re: Server setup David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-15 07:00 +0200
            Re: Server setup David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-15 07:00 +0200
      Re: Server setup Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2021-06-13 20:00 +0200

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