From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21929 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hedbor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: I wanna write an RFC Date: 15 Mar 1999 17:18:10 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159943 25484 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:25:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:25:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA26151 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:20:32 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAB24925; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:19:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:19:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA21313 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:19:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from pokey.animearchive.org (root@the.animearchive.org [204.228.135.138]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA26111 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:19:31 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from nyarlathotep.hedbor.org (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pokey.animearchive.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id RAA09204 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 17:17:23 -0800 (PST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "14 Mar 1999 17:44:17 +0100" Original-Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21929 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21929 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > No particular reason, really -- I just want to. > > One thing that I think is severly underdocumented is the X-Face > header. It's now getting a bit long in the tooth, and I think ten > years is way to long for an "X-" header to survive, so I want to write > an RFC that would, like, standardize it and stuff. "Face" is a nice > header name, isn't it? > > Anyway, I just wanted to know whether anyone knows of any previous > attempts to formalize this header. I've done Metacrawler, and I can't > really find anything at all about the format. I have the source to > un/compface (from '90; written by James Ashton), but that's it. What about creating a new, improved standard instead? The X-Face thing is rather dated. A picture with a couple of bitplanes would be nice for example. Also all implementations of x-face are buggy. A friend made a version which worked as the description said it should, and it naturally couldn't decompress any other x-face headers. I really think it's a rather bad standard. :) -- [ Below is a random fortune, which is unrelated to the above message. ] Sweater, n.: A garment worn by a child when its mother feels chilly.