From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79587 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What is the consensus concerning Face:, X-Face:, X-Image-Url and gravatar ? Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:14:09 +0200 Message-ID: <87oc0ea6ou.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de> References: <87r55ah81n.fsf@COLTRANE.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311858884 13840 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2011 13:14:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:14:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: "Sander Boer" Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27883@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jul 28 15:14:40 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 1QmQQB-000823-AK for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:14:39 +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 1QmQPx-0004ex-6A; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:14:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QmQPv-0004ee-S0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:14:23 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QmQPu-0005Sg-OH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:14:23 -0500 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QmQPt-0002sG-82 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:14:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679F8D23AC; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:14:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8sNe-MALS-wv; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:14:20 +0200 (CEST) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender noch tassilo@member.fsf.org Original-Received: from tsdh.uni-koblenz.de (tsdh.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.67.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0BFE5D23A7; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:14:19 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87r55ah81n.fsf@COLTRANE.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (Sander Boer's message of "Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:03:00 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79587 Archived-At: "Sander Boer" writes: 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 ? X-Face is usually ugly, Face is a bit better. The modern way is to use gravatar (which Gnus does of course support). Then nothing is added to the header at all, but the client (e.g., Gnus) may ask the gravatar server for some nice, high quality icon. Bye, Tassilo -- Sent from my Emacs