Jargons of Info Tech industry

[Dragan Cvetkovic]

rlb at hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos) writes:

> l v <lv at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Mike Schilling wrote:
>> > A formatting-only subset of HTML would be useful for both e-mail and Usenet 
>> > posts. 
>> 
>> I would *agree*  (your news reader may bold that last word)
>
> It had bloody better not. You're cross-posting this to a C newsgroup,
> where *ptr* 4 is a legal (albeit inadvisably spaced) expression.
>

Or _ptr_ for that matter (does it underline for you?)

Well, at least on my newsreader (gnus), I can toggle the behaviour. Ditto
for smileys:

(setq gnus-treat-display-smileys nil)

Dragan

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Dragan Cvetkovic, 

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