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    What is this? —Sarah Heacock
   I saw this in the headers of someone's LugNET message here. Any ideas what it means? X-Face: ##_]bn3\w0T9F5}3#M"*...=?-vXB4McJ S0]/@gqgAM#5k/kPBm|}...E|(|VJ")E` w0?S:MC23av=y&Ju<Esn...6J7DUtXN$e Sarah (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: What is this? —Fredrik Glöckner
     (...) Hey, that looks like me! Well, the X-Face header contains a highly compressed picture of the author's face (in this case, mine). It's basically a 48x48 picture in black and white only. I dunno what kind of software you would grab to ba able to (...) (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: What is this? —Todd Lehman
     (...) So it's not a font face but a human face? Wild!!! --Todd (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: What is this? —Sarah Heacock
      (...) *grin* A binary your filter did not catch, Todd.... Sarah Heacock sarah@eskimo.com (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: What is this? —Todd Lehman
      (...) It wasn't supposed to catch those. Only big block-looking things from the likes of BinHex, btoa, uuencode, PGP, etc... --Todd (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: What is this? —Matthew Miller
     (...) Yeah; it's a fairly old unix thing. It's part of the Redhat Linux distribution, I believe. (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: What is this? —Todd Lehman
     (...) I've seen that in RTL before too and it's got me puzzled a bit. Then again, I haven't done much reading about NNTP header extensions. I think it might be some kind of "preferred font" designator? --Todd (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: What is this? —Donald Durham
   (...) I Guess they were cussing about some of the new lego sets in Chinese I think could be wrong Donny D (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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