<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV style="">On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:50 PM, John Ross wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" style=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><STRONG style=""><FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I asked that question, a few days back. I got no answer, so I figured it was just me. :-(</SPAN></FONT></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="">You deserve a better answer. It has to do with the screen resolution an individual has chosen, and what font size is comfortably readable on the screen. I have a 17" 1280x1024 LCD monitor, and with my resolution set at the nominal size, a lower case letter at 10pt is ~2mm higher (7 pixels). Reset my resolution for 640x480, and the presentation of that same letter has doubled in size. So if a person who has their own reasons for setting monitor resolution at 640x480 (or something less than their monitor's nominal size), their 10pt character may be perfectly readable to them, being roughly the same size and readability as someone else's 12 pt at nominal resolution. But their emails sent out at 10pt may seem like the fine print at the end of a legal contract, when viewed by someone with a monitor at nominal resolution.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="">Personally, I like 1280x1024, still grieving as I am for a 21" CRT which bit the dust in Fall of '04. That's a big enough desktop for me to spread all my papers around on, and still make out 10pt type easily. The people who set their resolution at lower than nominal are easy to spot.</DIV><DIV style=""><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="">Unless of course, there's a 'bot somewhere out on the net which knocks the point size of every passing email down by two points. </DIV><BR style=""><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="">Mr. Bill</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>