On 15/05/2024 09:17, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 15/05/2024 02:32, Greg Wooledge wrote:On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 08:16:20PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:Messages in Markdown in the Windows world? I have never seen it.[...]The only sensible interpretation I can come up with for why these asterisks were added is that they're being placed around text that's supposed to be emphasized/italicized.*Bold*, /italics/, and _underlined_ markup is supported by various mailers, e.g. Thunderbird and Gnus.
I came across a document stating that in the case of Thunderbird the source of inspiration was Jargon File
<http://catb.org/jargon/html/writing-style.html> "Chapter 5. Hacker Writing Style" See <https://www.bucksch.org/1/projects/mozilla/16507/> "Ben Bucksch - Projects - Mozilla - TXT->HTML Conversion"