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From: vampladee@aol.com (VampLadee)
Subject: Re: Fellow AOLers...
Date: 1996/06/08
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In article <4p5qqs$ed9@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, weible@aol.com (Weible)
writes:

>In article <4p5it1$fs7@news1.radix.net>, tor@Radix.Net (Vic Hoover)
>writes:
>
>>Weible (weible@aol.com) wrote:
>>: Please do not post ascii art on the newsgroups, unless you designed it
>>: with a fixed-space font.  AOL don't use a fixed-space font, but the
>rest
>>: of the internet does.  Let us be kind to our neighbors.
>>
>>*boggle*  "the rest of the internet"?  *sigh*  It's hopeless.
>>
>>	}:>
>>
>>-
>
>Alright, maybe not everyone else uses monospacing, but enough do to make
>it rude to post proportional ascii art without letting people know that
it
>IS proportional.
>
>BTW- If you look at my (monospaced) sig, you'll see that I'm not just on
>AOL.  I've been getting on the internet for five years (longer than AOL
>has offered internet access).  Please don't think that just because my
>address is at AOL that I'm a newbee.
>
>               <>         Christopher Weible
> ><IXOYE>    //  <*Let the wicked fear the hand of God*>
>           //        Oceanside #381, Oceanside, CA
><>(((((((({@}::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::======-
>           \\
>             \\              Weible@aol.com
>               <>         The_Paladin@msn.com
>
>

:::sigh:::  Why would having an AOL address give people the
impression that you are a newbie?  Are you embarrassed by
your AOL address?  I'm well aware of how ISPers feel about
AOL members.  Just a thought...

This group is for ASCII art which stands for American Standard
Code for Information Interchange.  So bascally, artwork should
be kept to that font.  But what font is that?  Courier?  Is that
what text programs use such as Windows Notepad?

In article <4p7tlr$g3o@piano.cs.indiana.edu>, bodom@cs.indiana.edu (brian
odom) writes:

[snippies]
>argh!  there is *1* internet.  can't you guys on aol just change your
font?
>i'm sure aol has a fixed-space font somewhere.  neighbors?  us?  will
wonders
>ever cease.  i really can't say too much.
>
[snippies]
--
>brian odom 

No, I don't believe we guys can change our font, I've looked.  But if
someone knows how, I'd sure like to know.  The only way I can create
ASCII art is to do it in Windows Notepad, copy/paste into a new post. 
It's
really not all that difficult.

Is it all that difficult for ISP programs to change their fonts to view
proportional art?

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