Hrm. . . maybe maybe not.
Anyone ever see this before, either here or in another message board?
Tripler
Testing, testing . . . sibilance sibilance . . .
The meetup.com message boards allow it. I find it fairly annoying, though.
This site (and the other two vB boards I frequent) uses bold to differentiate between read and unread threads. No reason why italics shouldn’t be allowed, though.