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- From: kepley@photon.phys.unca.edu (Brad Kepley)
- Subject: Re: Underscores and _Book Titles_
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.180129.11211@cs.unca.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.unca.edu (Usenet News Adm)
- Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
- References: <C1KK5H.9Io@cen.ex.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:01:29 GMT
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- In article <C1KK5H.9Io@cen.ex.ac.uk> RDavies@cen.ex.ac.uk writes:
- >Does anyone know where the practice of putting underscore characters
- >around the titles of books referred to in email messages (e.g.
- >_Gone with the Wind_) comes from? It seems to be quite widespread
- >but none of the guides to "netiquette" that I have seen seem to
- >mention it.
- >Roy
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- The underscores are supposed to represent underlining. Weren't you
- taught to underline a name of a book when mentioning it in a paper?
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