From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:40:19 -0400 To: alltom@gmail.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory In-Reply-To: <326364c20708200434y575bc6bdq5504d096cd429c21@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: ac8ce092-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On 8/20/07, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > > Do you prefer embedding the "face" in each mail as metadata instead of > > keeping a faces db? > > Why would he? He argued for keeping icons in sync with files -- that's > because files change and move. Once you link an address with a face, > there are few reasons why that linkage would ever change. plan 9 doesn't have icons. - erik