Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action 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 11:30:03 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 66 Message-ID: References: <2e4fa415127042b502d49ed5d36dd321599220e6@i2pn2.org> <3P-dnSDa-vZTtbz6nZ2dnZfqn_QAAAAA@earthlink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:30:03 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a1a13cd07beb99bff128c077d97ddeb9"; logging-data="2253518"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX189Xd65LPl2kaJDUylIdC3ZTg0TEyuPS110nrNfclAF7Q==" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VsAN57JPGElcW1GZPtk0mHqHNQg= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA] wrote at 06:26 this Wednesday (GMT): > On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:10:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote: > >> Ant wrote at 18:26 this Tuesday (GMT): >>> Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >>>> On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:55:38 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote: >>> >>>> >candycanearter07 >>>> >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. I had to write my own script to display x-faces in slrn because the official one is broken :D -- user is generated from /dev/urandom