I think any formatting gets stripped by the server. Not sure where the extracharacters came from. Here's a test: Italics Bold Using Thunderbird version 1.0.2 (20050317) John Myers Myers TV Service 376 E. State St. Alliance, OH 44601 330-821-6545 myers_tv_b@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[1] www.myerstv.net[2] Phil Bader wrote: When I write an email response, sometimes I highlight a work and click the "italics" button to accentuate the word. It comes back on the forum not with thw word in italics, but with a forward slash bar either side. I highlighted some words in another email, to make bold only to see allbut one of them normal, but with asterisks next to them. Is this a quirk of Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206), or what? Phil Bader --- Links --- 1 mailto:myers_tv_b@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 2 http://www.myerstv.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Appliance Repair List: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/chatjoin.htm#app Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/