Re: Xnews out of memory problem

thanatoid wrote:

I don't scream (nor am I responsible for the voices in your head). If
you're referring to "all-caps-is-yelling", that is a convention which made
no sense to me 20 years ago and makes less now. I don't yell, I sometimes
need to stress certain words. Since I don't use html in mail/news, I
emphasize them with caps or <>'s. If there is another way, please
enlighten me.

Emphasis is generally expressed with *asterisks*. That's the convention
to the extent that some news clients can be set to bold what's between
those asterisks (and if so configured, not display the asterisks while
bolding their content). I do not know when asterisks were not the
convention.


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