(OT) Re: Unity ROCKS!!!

[Albert Wagner]

On 05/03/2011 05:50 PM, Isaac Hummel wrote:
> On 05/03/2011 06:19 PM, Ernest Doub wrote:
>> Please read the parenthesis before accusing me of shouting.
>> Writing in plain text removes many options for emphasis.
>> Hi Desert Ed
>
> You could just have put the whole thing between *s, like you did with 
> one word. Thunderbird automatically bolds things between *s and it is 
> generally understood to be a plaintext *bold*.
>
> The problem with capping it all is that many of us who have been 
> around the Internet for a long time /hear/ shouting in our heads when 
> we read all caps. Putting parenthetical remarks doesn't change what 
> all caps means to us, nor what it is generally accepted to mean on the 
> Internet as a whole.
>
> I'm sorry if I come off as an netiquette Nazi. That's not really my 
> intention, nor would I necessarily object if you /wanted/ to shout for 
> a single sentence about your displeasure at Unity (or anything else).
>
There was a name once for such plain text markup, but I forgot what it 
was.  It even worked better by dropping the indicator characters once 
the "quoted" text was appropriately highlighted.