Sandman
In article <sdo4m9dcbg7a31nngperdsahce4pum5v5q@4ax.com>, Andreas Skitsnack wrote:

Tony Cooper
We are denied the use of italics or underlining in newsgroup postings, so we resort to other conventions to emphasize a word or phrase. Some call them "emphasis quotes" and some call them "scare quotes".

Sandman
Funny link: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002796.html

"Emphatic quotation marks are usually mocked as an illiteratism; but in any case, they aren't standard"

Ironic :)

Tony Cooper
If you actually read the article, the thrust is that bold face, italics, or underlining is the preferable treatment. None of those options are available to us when we post here.

Sandman
If you actually could read to save your life, you'll see that he wrote:

"The boldfaced words were originally typed inside asterisks, to indicate emphasis in text that sticks to ASCII characters"

You don't have to use caps or asterisks, but using quotation marks is non-standard and mocked as only being used by illiterate people, so having the suggestion come from you is endlessly funny.