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Re: Musical notes...

From Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org>
Newsgroups rec.puzzles
Subject Re: Musical notes...
Date 2026-06-05 16:41 +0300
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James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
> Show of hands, please.  How many of you view rec.puzzles in a
> fixed-width font?  IIRC back in the 20th century, this newsgroup
> had an over-riding default to fixed-width (Courier) because many
> presentations relied on that.

Never anything but. Through familiarity, some of my favourite fonts
are fixed-width ones, so anything else would now uglify usenet for
me. Lose-lose.

Phil
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Musical notes... David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> - 2026-05-27 08:20 +0000
  Re: Musical notes... James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-27 12:58 +0000
    Re: Musical notes... David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> - 2026-05-27 18:06 +0000
      Re: Musical notes... David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> - 2026-05-28 10:15 +0000
  Re: Musical notes... ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-05-27 16:25 +0000
    Re: Musical notes... James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-27 17:10 +0000
  Re: Musical notes... James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-28 12:30 +0000
    Re: Musical notes... HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-28 18:21 +0000
    Re: Musical notes... msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) - 2026-05-28 18:50 +0000
    Re: Musical notes... David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> - 2026-05-29 17:19 +0000
    Re: Musical notes... Charlie Roberts <croberts@gmail.com> - 2026-05-29 15:48 -0400
      Re: Musical notes... ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-05-29 20:59 +0000
        Re: Musical notes... James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-30 12:07 +0000
          Re: Musical notes... James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-30 12:25 +0000
            Re: Musical notes... James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-30 12:33 +0000
            Re: Musical notes... ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-05-30 12:56 +0000
    Re: Musical notes... Mike Terry <news.dead.person.stones@darjeeling.plus.com> - 2026-05-29 22:38 +0100
      Re: Musical notes... David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> - 2026-05-30 06:38 +0000
    Re: Musical notes... Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> - 2026-06-05 16:41 +0300
      Re: Musical notes... James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-05 14:54 +0000

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