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

From: Victor Rehorst (chuma@chuma.org)
Date: Fri Aug 11 2000 - 23:15:03 CDT


On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Ivan Shaw wrote:

> OK, SimpleMail 4.1.1 appears to be working well and I can filter stuff
> without too much of a problem (no leaks). I noticed that Simon included
> support for the X-Face message header via the facedecoder.pkg extension.
>
> My question is: what is the point of this header anyway?

Coolness factor. That's all :)

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