> Finally, in addition to fancy servers, I see nothing wrong with
> distributing the faces database by the simple addition of a different
> header:
> X-Face-URL: http://www.example.com/faces/com/example/user.gif
In 1991, picons were only XBM and the compface algo was efficient enough
to allow picon integration in X-Face. In 1992, XPM icons stopped that and
the X-Face-URL has been proposed....and abandoned because it implies
1) HTTP implementation in MUAs
2) wait until you see the face of the sender
> PS if you want to get bizarre, you could always have a faces.* USENET
> hierarchy, with articles containing updates/additions to the database....
This is not bizarre, this is impossible. Articles are thrown to /dev/null
when they get too old ("too old" is a value set by the newsmaster).
Futhermore, such a call for discussion will never ever reach a consensus
allowing a call for vote !
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