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From: "Arjen Pilon" <aepilon@studenten.net.nospam>
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Subject: Re: Sending ASCII - question
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 11:48:41 +0200
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Tilman Ahr <rioteer@gmx.net> schreef in berichtnieuws
m3d7cb2m4v.fsf@Rudeboy.rioteer.subdomain.de...
> "bam" <bam@digital.net> writes:
>
> > 1. Is there any way to assure that when one e-mails using a fixed width
> > font that the recipient will receive in the same manner?
>
> With *real* e-mail: No. If you want to send ASCII-art to Clueless
> Wan^WId^WLu^WUsers using OE or similar "Mailreaders" you might try to
> make it an HTML-mail and put the ASCII-art in <pre>-Tags.
>
> But that would be fighting something bad with something worse...
>
> What I would do, really is tell in the beginning of the Message to view
> it in a fixed-width-font.
>

Another thing you might try is to send the message in HTML and make sure the
pic is in a fixed width font, I don't know if it really works though...

Arjen