Re: X-Face and depth

[Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org>]

|--==> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

  LMI> However, I'm not sure this is a good idea.  Do we want to
  LMI> encourage people to add even more data to the headers?

Probably not, but the lusers who'd abuse it are more likely to be
using Internet Exploder or Netscum rather than Gnus anyway.  Most of
them probably wouldn't even know what a header was.

  LMI> is 2002, and bandwidth and disk space is so much cheaper than
  LMI> it was when X-Faces were dreamt up.

True, but even today it's still out of reach of some people.  I'd love
to have a 24/7 cable connection, but I can't afford it so I stick with
my 56k modem dialup.  My 30 gig disk is rapidly filling up, but I bet
I'm deleting stuff before I can afford to add more disk space.

Just reminding you that there are still people in the world on a tight
budget. :-)

  LMI> On the third hand, why not define a new format altogether?
  LMI> X-Gif-Face, or something.  

X-Png-Face would be better (keeps away from the Gif patent issue). 

  LMI> Or even referring to an outside source via HTTP.

So when do we get X-Streaming-Video? :-)

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