From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79588 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams 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 11:28:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r55ah81n.fsf@COLTRANE.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87oc0ea6ou.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311866988 4602 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2011 15:29:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:29:48 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27884@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jul 28 17:29:44 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 1QmSWt-0003pi-Su for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:29:44 +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 1QmSWC-0005GE-TI; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:29:00 -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 1QmSW9-0005Fu-Vk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:28:57 -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 1QmSW8-00056E-2F for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:28:57 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QmSW4-00064C-E0 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:28:52 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QmSW3-0003LX-AY for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:28:51 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:28:51 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:28:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Qu8jQyJuK5BNbb0L9M8fPgEWeJY= X-Spam-Score: -6.1 (------) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79588 Archived-At: on Thu Jul 28 2011, Tassilo Horn wrote: > "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 It would be really nice if it could fall back to using picons when no gravatar is found. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com