[plug] e-mail contents

[Alex Polglaze]

>> There's a *reason* for people periodically wipe-and-reinstalling their 
>> MS-Windows partitions every so often, y'know?

For reasons unknown to me, when I receive a message where the word is in 
  between "*", as in "reason" above, it is coming out in bold on my 
Thunderbird.

This has only been happening in the last few days, and I haven't seen 
this before. Is this some new feature?

Alex