Re: WARNING: Industry ............................

It wasn't a dark and stormy night when cathyb wrote:

> Oops--both 'ggogle' and 'e-mails appears'. Lady Lollipop is
> obviously in *my* house. In fact this is probably proof enough for
> Lollipop that I *am* her. 'Specially with the asterisks:)

Nah, asterisks is me, I use them to emphasise a word. Another way is
to put _underscores_ around a word. In some newsreaders underscores
show up as underlined, asterisks as bold and /slashes/ as italic.

I mainly use asterisks as emphasis because my word processor has
that as a short cut for making text bold.

You're safe unless you descend into the realm of multiple ellipses
per sentence, or worse still *partial* ellipses. :)


Vashti
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