When presenting information in columnar format it is best to create the message
using a fixed pitch font rather than a proportional font.  In this way anyone
using any fixed pitch font in their email reader may view the message as
intended with columns properly displayed.

If a proportional font is used in creating the message, the columns will not
display properly using fixed pitch fonts.  They will only display properly if
the reader uses the same proportional font that the message writer used, or a
font with identical character widths to the one used.

If proportional fonts are used when creating colums, many readers will see
non-aligned columns.


 334  WILLIAM  COOPER     57  M             FARMER       4,000
>        MARY                         18  F
>        ROBERT  G. HERMDSON(?)  24  M       FARMER
> 335  JOHN  E. WILSON         25  M          FARMER         5,000
>         JANE  M.                     23    F
>        MARY                             1  F

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