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To: J.B.C. who wrote (55654)	9/13/2004 10:24:45 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Oh, I forgot, the disastrous Medicare reform which effects me and all seniors.... AND not being able to purchase RX in other countries.. And the tax breaks to the wealthy..although it helped me I feel as the CEO of Netscape. He did not need another two million dollars. Better to give it to social programs and bring up the deficit.

To: J.B.C. who wrote (55654)	9/13/2004 11:02:27 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

There is one more major point to make on the topic. Here is an important link concerning the kerning of font set. timwike.dircon.co.uk Now many of you may have seen this link before. I am not making a joke of it. If you study that link, its effects depend on the reader concentrating on a subset of the information available. The most obvious distraction is all the discussion of kerning, when kerning is not involved in the memos. The blogs try to confuse kerning with proportional spacing, why? because kerning takes special equipment while proportional spacing just takes a quality typewriter. The next most obvious distraction is the idea that Times Roman or a varient wouldn't be on a proportional space typewriter. You certainly wouldn't expect Courier or Pica on such a typewriter because it will have a proportionaly spaced font, and Times Roman is by far the most common proportional font. Now the narrative which calls for forgery tries to imply that the forgery is so obvious that it's a slam-dunk. If that were so it would not be necessary to bring up things like kerning and yet many-many paragraphs in the blogs are devoted to just that topic. Some of you may remember other cases where this type of associate was used to leave an impression that items (or people) were connected when in fact they weren't it even says somewhere within the narrative that they aren't. If you go through a blog such as: flounder.com It is constructed part, by part much like the magic trick with implications of impartiality (the cards are shuffled), nothing up the sleeve (plenty of links to completely irrelevant items like paint colors but no links to the author's credentials). In the card trick the admonishment to keep the mouse away from the cards provides the same level of assurance that no trick is forthcoming. Then finally comes the trick itself, a huge distraction about kerning and another about how to copy a signature in a way that was obviously not used in the memos. The card trick is more satisfying. TP