From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80109 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What is the consensus concerning Face:, X-Face:, X-Image-Url and gravatar ? Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:17:11 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87lit7lnc8.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87r55ah81n.fsf@COLTRANE.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87oc0ea6ou.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317287865 812 80.91.229.12 (29 Sep 2011 09:17:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:17:45 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28403@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Sep 29 11:17:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R9CkO-0001Mj-08 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:17:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R9CkI-0005uE-Ky; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:17:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R9CkH-0005u0-Ci for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:17:33 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R9CkD-0006FI-2Z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:17:33 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R9CkB-0007bX-ND for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:17:27 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R9CkB-0001I5-Hl for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:17:27 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.133 ([38.98.147.133]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:17:27 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.133 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:17:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.133 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hW0fCVJgeyMZLks1ubnwKsIt8PQ= X-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80109 Archived-At: On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:14:09 +0200 Tassilo Horn wrote: TH> "Sander Boer" 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