Re: Newsgroups, arts, ants, etc. (was Re: CRAP Poll 77C Part III Subsection 2 Paragraph 19: Them Thar Words At The Bottom Of The Screen)

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
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just put urself on your xface like i do :>

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xface?

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Sayeth the Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face):

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   An X-Face is a small bitmap (48 × 48 pixels, black and white) image
   which is added to a Usenet posting or e-mail message, typically
   showing a picture of the author's face. The image data is included
   in the posting as encoded text, and attached with an 'X-Face'
   header.

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   While many programs support X-Face, most of them are free software
   and based on Unix or its variations, such as KMail or Sylpheed.

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I've never heard of it myself. I've never used an NNTP client that
supported it; my ancient version of Agent certainly doesn't. And I'm
happy about that; Usenet is text. Binary shit like that doesn't
belong. I mean, what's next, bold text and colors? That way leads to
chaos and madness, I tell you! ;-)

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Interesting. It reminds me of web sites' favicon.ico which is popular.
I never knew this X-Face existed. Did anyone even use it? I just know
people use ASCII arts like mine. :P Obviously, they need a fixed width
font like Courier, Monospace, etc. to see it formatted correctly.

 
I use xface! mostly because ascii is hard :D

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I use X-Face: headers, and have been known to use Face: headers,
too.
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Pan supports them, so I see those from others like
candycanearter07. 
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They take up just a few lines in the article header.

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Apparently NewsTap --an NNTP client for Apple IOS-- supports it too.

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Me, I'm stickin' with ASCII. It's a slippery slope otherwise --today
X-Face, tomorrow Emojis!-- and I'm not willing to risk that ;-P

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ASCII & ANSI FTW. Animojis aren't even popular with Apple users. Haha.
Although, I do want an ant animoji. Apple should let customize our own!
:(