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From: weible@aol.com (Weible)
Subject: Re: Fellow AOLers...
Date: 1996/06/09
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In article <4pf80j$2bo@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, vampladee@aol.com
(VampLadee) writes:

>I wonder why it is though that AOL uses proportional fonts when most
>all ISPs don't.  Just trying to be difficult?  That's exactly the way I
>do my ASCII art, too.  In notepad.  All art here has to be copy/pasted
>to notepad to view it properly.
>
>

I believe it's laziness on the part of their programmers.  Having a
college degree in Programming (not just computer science), I know how easy
it would be for a half-way decent windows programmer to allow a change of
fonts.  For some reason aol has left this out.

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