What's an e-mailer with ASCII Art supposed to do?

Redhead wrote in article <33e...@news.iglou.com>...

>More and more recipients of my e-mail with my sig or an ascii art
>attached are replying, "By the way. What was that mess at the bottom
>of your letter?"
>
>Seems most new e-mail programs and newsreaders are using type fonts
>that totally screw-up the wonderful world of ASCII Art.
>
>Does anyone know of a way to ensure an e-mail is viewed as the sender
>intended?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I hate to see the
>ultimate art form, deformed.
>
>redhead

I had wondered the same thing when people emailed me and their sig never
looked right.  I discovered that it was as you said... the font of the
receiver.  To avoid this problem, ask to whome you are mailing to change
their default font to courier.  That should solve the problem.  I think that
is the only font that makes ascii-art look right.


That's the only way that I know of that can fix the problem.  There is
nothing the sender can do.  Similarly, the person creating the ascii art
should aslo be in courier because it will also not look right and then you
play to make it look right and the reciever will never get the right image
no matter what font they are in, except of course if their font matches the
one you created it in. ;)

RJ

In article <33e...@news.iglou.com>, red...@iglou.com wrote:
}More and more recipients of my e-mail with my sig or an ascii art
}attached are replying, "By the way. What was that mess at the bottom
}of your letter?"
}
}Seems most new e-mail programs and newsreaders are using type fonts
}that totally screw-up the wonderful world of ASCII Art.
}
}Does anyone know of a way to ensure an e-mail is viewed as the sender
}intended?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I hate to see the
}ultimate art form, deformed.

Try just putting an instruction in your sig to change to their "fixed font" to 
view the signature to see a neat picture. In most cases it's a push button 
away on most mail and news programs.

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