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Subject: 
Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
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Date: 
Sat, 25 Nov 2000 17:07:11 GMT
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David M. <ElectroTX@webtv.net> wrote:
That's an out-dated concept taught by keyboarding instructors who were
originally taught on fixed-width font systems e.g. typewriters. There is no

Or, uh, e-mail and usenet news (like lugnet), which should *always* use
fixed-width fonts.

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  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) But, reading lugnet on the web, it doesn't. -Shiri (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) That's an out-dated concept taught by keyboarding instructors who were originally taught on fixed-width font systems e.g. typewriters. There is no longer a need to extend distances between the end of one sentence and the beginning of another, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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