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From: rwt@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Rainer Thonnes)
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In article <4m35lm$g1h@globe.indirect.com>,
stevemac@indirect.com (Steve MacGregor) writes:
>   People writing in newsgroups like this generally double-space after 
> periods, since most people read them in monospaced fonts of some kind; 
> there are newsreaders that display messages in proportional fonts, 
> though.  We should all realize that not everyone sees these messages the 
> same way that we do.

It's worth emphasising that the last sentence above applies not only
to the physical appearance of text on screen, but also to the readers'
inner (or minds') eyes, that is to say it applies not just to form
but also to content.
