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Re: What is this?
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Date: 
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:16:54 GMT
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Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> writes:

sarah@eskimo.com (Perhaps a Princess....) writes:

I saw this in the headers of someone's LugNET message here. Any ideas
what it means?

X-Face: [...]

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 see the
face.  Some newsreaders decompress them automatically, I guess, but I've
only used the Gnus newsreader so far.

So it's not a font face but a human face?  Wild!!!

--Todd



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  Re: What is this?
 
(...) *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?
 
(...) 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)

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(...) 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)

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