Re: E-mail and Ascii art

In article <eJMHkt#K9G...@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net>, "Brock Kevin
Nambo" <new...@earthling.net> wrote:
> 
> Dale Gerdemann wrote in message
> <34C...@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>...
> >Hello all,
> >
> >I read the FAQ about ascii art in signature files, but oddly enough
> >it didn't mention the problem that the person on the receiving end
> >may be using a mail reader with non-proportional fonts. Is there any
> >way around this problem?
> 
> If the person whom you are sending it to has a mailreader sophisticated
> enough to show proportional fonts, it should also be able to support HTML.
> So you can send your message in HTML with the ascii art portion set to a
> font like Courier New.
> 
> (And any person who actually chooses to read mail in proportional fonts is
> violating common sense anyway--Email is supposed to be monospaced, and
> usually is assumed to be so; the boxes and other images you often find in
> .signature files show this...)
> 
> Unless you're dealing with an AOL user, in which case life is hopeless and
> you must show them where "Notepad" is. :\
> 
> >>BKNambo
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Please DO NOT SEND e-mail in html form.

Just put the phrase

"You must view this with a fixed width font such as COURIER or MONACO in
order for it to make any sense at all."

at the beginning of the ascii-art.

I have purposely included only TWO names of fixed width fonts. As far as
I know, that phrase will cover you for Macs and PCs. (But as BKN has
indicated, the AOL user is still SOL without the help of a text editor.)


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