From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: What is the consensus concerning Face:, X-Face:, X-Image-Url and gravatar ?
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:17:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lit7lnc8.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oc0ea6ou.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de>
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:14:09 +0200 Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
TH> "Sander Boer" <sanderboer@yahoo.com> writes:
TH> Hi Sander,
>> What I would like to know is what the good people in this group think
>> of the methods for these unnecessary embelishments: devil's spawn,
>> don't care or waiting for a better solution ?
TH> X-Face is usually ugly
*sniff* that's just mean, we can't help our looks *sniff*
TH> Face is a bit better. The modern way is to use gravatar (which
TH> Gnus does of course support). Then nothing is added to the header
TH> at all, but the client (e.g., Gnus) may ask the gravatar server for
TH> some nice, high quality icon.
Gravatars fail completely if your firewall blocks the gravatar server or
if you are offline. Face/X-Face keep working.
Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-29 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-28 13:03 Sander Boer
2011-07-28 13:06 ` Julien Danjou
2011-07-28 15:43 ` Sander Boer
2011-07-28 20:59 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-07-28 21:19 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-08-19 20:08 ` X-Image-Url support Adam Sjøgren
2011-08-21 3:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-08-21 9:22 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-09-29 9:17 ` What is the consensus concerning Face:, X-Face:, X-Image-Url and gravatar ? Ted Zlatanov
2011-07-28 13:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-07-28 15:28 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-29 9:17 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
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