From: David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Face: or X-Face:
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 10:55:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y68ejzd7q18.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r73ei9m0.fsf@gmail.com>
Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
> as for the rest : I guess many would say x-face since its B&W and less
> bandwidth : although, frankly, times and bandwidths have changed - it
> depends if you want to appease those with very, very bandwidth. Even an
> x-face uses bytes - but can be very small (relatively) too.
I think in an era where most people are generating MIME mails with
duplicate text/plain and text/html parts and the HTML is pretty
groady, spending 2K for a picture in an otherwise compact plain-text
message isn't being that wasteful. :-)
As far as Face vs. X-Face goes, to my knowledge only Gnus uses Face,
but its format is fairly obvious and I could imagine hacking it into
my favorite other open-source mail reader [1]. X-Face is a stranger
but more compact format, but there's at least one other mailer that
uses it (EXMH, IIRC).
--dzm
[1] ...but that's mutt (sometimes starting Emacs, with spam-split.el
turned on using nnml backed by AFS, is just too slow). Maybe
aalib deals with PNG files...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-01 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-01 5:26 Aaron Hsu
2006-05-01 5:42 ` Hadron Quark
2006-05-01 14:55 ` David Z Maze [this message]
2006-05-01 15:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-05-01 9:19 ` Reiner Steib
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