Re: pictures in sender

[Artem Baguinski <artm@v2.nl>]

David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> writes:

>> all of a sudden i see funny, mostly black and white, pictures in
>> sender header. i wonder what are they, what are size/color limits and
>> how do i attach one to myself? ;-)
>
> Only black-and-white ones?  Those are X-Faces, applying Google for
> "x-face" appears to give some useful information, including at least
> one online converter.  Must be exactly 48x48 and black-and-white.
> There are also color Faces, where the header is a base64-encoded 48x48
> PNG image; http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/ has information.  IIRC
> you can put as much as you want in the image so long as the header
> comes in under 1K, which works out to...726 bytes for the actual image
> file, it looks like, which tends to work out to a 7-color 48x48 image
> (or so).

thanks. black and white is enough... 


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