Usenet and Email Hypertext
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  A good first start is to get everyone using something like setext_ which
  lets you embed simple structure into the document without getting
  in the way for people that don't have browsers_.

  You'll note that this document uses setext_ to include headers and
  hypertext links but I bet you have hardly noticed it.  The important
  aspect is that the text is both human and machine readable.

For a Demo
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  You can view this article through my setext -> HTML converter_
  by opening http://www.bsdi.com/setext/usenet-email.etx

For more Information
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  Check out the various documents about setext_ by Ian Feldman.
  typotags.txt_ is a good overview of the tags available (headers, bold,
  italic, underlined, hypertext).  setext_ is really quite simple, it
  can't be used for arbitrary documents but for Email and Usenet it's
  really quite sufficient and efficient.

Hypertext Links, Still a Problem
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  setext_ doesn't address the issue of how to FIND hypertext links to
  other documents but it does make presenting them in simple text much
  more bearable.

  --sanders_

.. _typotags.txt http://www.bsdi.com/setext/typotags.txt
.. _setext       http://www.bsdi.com/setext
.. _sanders      http://www.bsdi.com/hyplan/sanders.html
.. _converter    http://www.bsdi.com/server/util/setext.pl
.. _browsers     http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html