On 28 Nov 2000, Winship wrote:

> Plain ASCII is so close to being proportional I don't think I could read
> it from the monitor if it were more so (of course, that leaves out
> proportional bold, but that is ok since we've gotten rid of the bold).

A nit here, ASCII refers to the way the text is encoded.  Proportional and
its opposite, monospaced, refer to the type face in which it is displayed.
They are, pretty much, independent of each other.

I do agree about plain text for everyone though.


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