re: NTLK Off-Topic: reason for the X-Face mail header?

From: Mishka Gorodnitzky (misaka@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Aug 13 2000 - 09:52:11 CDT


Ivan Shaw writes:
] My question is: what is the point of this header anyway?
]
] I know that it allows certain mailers (mostly Unix and Linux-based) to
] personalize outbound messages but what is the point of sending out the
] little image?

     I don't know about you, but I recognize a face much more
intuitively than I recognize a name/e.mail address. Whenever an
X-Face image pops up in my mail reader it's always a welcome sight.

-- Mishka
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