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From: tim@unc.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: what is it with this @i(mumble) stuff?
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Date: Tue, 11-Oct-83 17:04:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 11 17:04:28 1983
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For all the rest of you who were wondering:  the @i(text) form that appears
in articles from time to time is the way to tell Scribe (a reasonably
popular word processor) to italicize the text.  I don't know of any news
interfaces that run their text through Scribe, so I assume the writer just
thought it would be better than going to ALL CAPS or *bracketing with
asterisks*, which seem to be the most common ways here.

Tim Maroney