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  • Newsgroups, arts, ants, etc. (was Re: CRAP Poll 77C Part III Subsection 2 Paragraph 19: Them Thar Words At The Bottom Of The Screen)

    From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Oct 31 02:04:06 2024
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    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
    ...
    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.

    Apparently NewsTap --an NNTP client for Apple IOS-- supports it too.

    Me, I'm stickin' with ASCII. It's a slippery slope otherwise --today
    X-Face, tomorrow Emojis!-- and I'm not willing to risk that ;-P

    ASCII & ANSI FTW. Animojis aren't even popular with Apple users. Haha. Although, I do want an ant animoji. Apple should let customize our own!
    :(
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  • From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Oct 31 11:50:04 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 02:04 this Thursday (GMT):
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
    ...
    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.

    Apparently NewsTap --an NNTP client for Apple IOS-- supports it too.

    Me, I'm stickin' with ASCII. It's a slippery slope otherwise --today
    X-Face, tomorrow Emojis!-- and I'm not willing to risk that ;-P

    ASCII & ANSI FTW. Animojis aren't even popular with Apple users. Haha. Although, I do want an ant animoji. Apple should let customize our own!
    :(


    Antimoji :D
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