From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41460 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew J Cosgriff Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: X-Face and depth Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 11:53:27 +1100 Organization: or something Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <1yg05oz248.fsf@earthling.aia.aig.com.au> References: <87r8p8d5ep.fsf@bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176851 6247 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:07:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:07:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 8334 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2002 00:56:21 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 3 Jan 2002 00:56:21 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16Lw9O-0000lg-00; Wed, 02 Jan 2002 18:54:30 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 02 Jan 2002 18:54:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA27155 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:54:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 8289 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2002 00:54:04 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8284 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2002 00:54:02 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.aiaa.com.au (210.8.191.200) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Jan 2002 00:54:02 -0000 Original-Received: from bart.aiaa.com.au (bart.aia.aig.com.au [192.168.5.134]) by mail.aiaa.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A17475810 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:53:29 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: from earthling.aia.aig.com.au (earthling.aia.aig.com.au [192.168.1.214]) by bart.aiaa.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49B724777 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:53:02 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: by earthling.aia.aig.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1225) id 070F114B; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:53:27 +1100 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Now-Playing: Night After Night - Paul Kelly with Uncle Bill - Smoke X-URI: X-Face: (>iU0D+0F`<}g_wGK"Bza8]F'/lbXCL._fcD6RfK+lxM-VClGXy5GId*}G-$jZE@]iW In-Reply-To: <87r8p8d5ep.fsf@bang.priv.no> (sb@dod.no's message of "Wed, 2 Jan 2002 17:36:49 +0000 (UTC)") Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.5 (asparagus, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41460 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41460 Steinar Bang wrote : >>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : > >> However, I'm not sure this is a good idea. Do we want to encourage >> people to add even more data to the headers? On the other hand, >> this is 2002, and bandwidth and disk space is so much cheaper than >> it was when X-Faces were dreamt up. On the third hand, why not >> define a new format altogether? X-Gif-Face, or something. > ^^^eeeek! > X-png-face, please! > > It's 2002, after all. :-) I think I'd prefer an URL and perhaps some kind of caching mechanism for people who don't have an HTTP cache their side of a slow link. -- Andrew J Cosgriff feeling like a robot by the river