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From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
Subject: Re: Ants (was Re: CRAP Poll 77C Part III Subsection 2 Paragraph 19: Them Thar Words At The Bottom Of The Screen)
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candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 18:26 this Tuesday (GMT):
> > Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:55:38 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
> >
> >> >candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
> >> >...
> >> >> >> >> > https://www.reddit.com/r/antkeeping/comments/mka4ya/what_is_the_cutest_ant/
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> Faces only a mother-ant could love. Although some do look tasty.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Am I cute and tasty to you?
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> i dunno, have u ever shown urself
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Look at my ASCII art in my signature? :P
> >> >
> >> >> Ohh, that's you?
> >> >
> >> >> just put urself on your xface like i do :>
> >> >
> >> >xface?
> >
> >> Sayeth the Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face):
> >
> >>    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.
> >
> >>    While many programs support X-Face, most of them are free 
> >>    software and based on Unix or its variations, such as KMail 
> >>    or Sylpheed. 
> >
> >> 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! ;-)
> >
> > 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

Hmm! I have to figure out how to see it! Tin is a TUI usenet reader. :(
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