New web newsreader - requesting participation

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 31.01.2011 13:19, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
> "foobar"<foo at bar.com>  wrote in message
> news:ii62n0$1r3i$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> 1. common human markup such as: _foo_ (underline), *foo* (bold) etc,
>>
>
> I've never been much of a fan of that. Actually that's one of the things I
> didn't like about Thunderbird when I tried it: it kept replacing *'s and _'s
> with formatting even what I was in the supposed "plaintext" mode.
>
> Of course, if the *'s and _'s stay intact when the text is bolded/etc, then
> I can't say I'd care quite so much.
>

This is exactly what my Thunderbird (okay, it's Icedove really) does. 
*,_,/ stays intact, but the text is bolded/underlined/italicized.