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From: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
To: "Sander Boer" <sanderboer@yahoo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: What is the consensus concerning Face:, X-Face:, X-Image-Url and gravatar ?
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:06:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <sa3liviblme.fsf@cigue.easter-eggs.fr> (raw)
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")

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On Thu, Jul 28 2011, Sander Boer wrote:

> I notice quite a few people in this group use X-Face headers, but I read
> that these are regarded to be antequated.

They are and there are supported by a very few MUA… Actually I don't
know any other thing than Gnus that supports it currently, but there
might be.

> 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 ?

Don't care, but Gravatar is now quite a de-facto standard… Not that it's
good to use a centralized service, but well, for now, that does the job
and people use it… :)

-- 
Julien Danjou
❱ http://julien.danjou.info

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-28 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-28 13:03 Sander Boer
2011-07-28 13:06 ` Julien Danjou [this message]
2011-07-28 15:43   ` Sander Boer
2011-07-28 20:59   ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-07-28 21:19     ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-08-19 20:08     ` X-Image-Url support Adam Sjøgren
2011-08-21  3:38       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-08-21  9:22         ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-09-29  9:17   ` What is the consensus concerning Face:, X-Face:, X-Image-Url and gravatar ? Ted Zlatanov
2011-07-28 13:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-07-28 15:28   ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-29  9:17   ` Ted Zlatanov

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