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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 8 Nov 1994.
Talk: Should "Font" be added to subject IDs

Talk: Should "Font" be added to subject IDs

On 7 Nov 1994, Bob Allison wrote:

>    I have hesitated to add a "Font" subject ID, because it wouldn't be
> good to have too many.  But it seems like it makes sense.
>    On the one hand, a font can be line art or a Figlet font, so there can
> be IDs like:
> Line: Fiddler's Font
> Binary: fiddlers.flf font
>    These are OK, but fonts are popular and different enough to seem to
> justify a "Font" subject ID.  What do you think?

	I think that fonts deserve their own ID, yes. Maybe something like:

FONT: Line: Fiddler's Font
FONT: Figlet: fiddlers.flf

This seems to show more clearly that the post is a font, which, after all, is
the idea of these ID's. :)

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Subject: Talk: Should "Font" be added to subject IDs
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