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> From: jester@panix.com (Jesse Sheidlower)
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 27 Apr 2004 16:50:25 -0400
> 
> It says "FRAME nil or not specified means change face on all frames",
> but that leaves open the issue of whether that means 'all existing
> frames' or 'all frames that exist now and are created in the future,
> until such time as the font is re-set'.

It means "all frames", current and future.

In other words, it changes the face on all existing frames, and also
changes the default definition of the face used by frames that you
create afterwards.  Or at least it should.