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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Ants (was Re: CRAP Poll 77C Part III Subsection 2 Paragraph 19:
 Them Thar Words At The Bottom Of The Screen)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 06:26:10 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:10:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 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

I use X-Face: headers, and have been known to use Face: headers,
too.

Pan supports them, so I see those from others like
candycanearter07.  

They take up just a few lines in the article header.

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