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Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird?

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Alan K. wrote:
> On 6/10/25 5:58 PM, aRubes wrote:
>> I am seeing some nice Gravatar / libravatar user icons via extensions. Wondered whether 
>> the old (but cool) way is something still doable, and how do you achieve it
> For people like me that are oblivious to what you are talking about,  could you explain in 
> a few sentences?

It's an outdated way of showing small black&white pictures in the
header section of a posting. That pictures were encoded in the header,
only some dozen pixels in size. Only usenet nerds tended to use them as
a kind of personal avatar.
I never got used to this childish kind of nonsense and filtered the
display of x-face out.

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x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? aRubes <aRubes@pm.me> - 2025-06-11 00:58 +0300
  Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-06-10 18:57 -0400
    Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-06-10 19:25 -0400
      Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-06-10 19:17 -0500
        Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-06-11 03:44 +0200
          Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Bob Henson <bob.henson@outlook.com> - 2025-06-11 10:46 +0100
        Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Bob Henson <bob.henson@outlook.com> - 2025-06-11 10:37 +0100
          Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-06-11 09:31 -0500
    Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-06-10 18:31 -0500
      Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-06-10 21:46 -0400
      Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-06-11 15:30 +0200
        Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-06-11 12:35 -0500
          Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-06-11 15:16 -0400
            Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-06-11 22:49 +0200
              Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-06-11 18:52 -0400
                Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-06-12 01:12 +0200
            Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-06-11 16:04 -0500
          Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-06-11 21:32 +0200
            Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-06-11 16:02 -0500
              Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-06-11 23:19 -0400
                Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-06-11 22:46 -0500
              Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-06-13 19:12 +0200
    Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-06-11 01:37 +0200
  Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-06-11 01:44 +0200
  Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Nil <rednoise9@rednoise9.invalid> - 2025-06-11 12:27 -0400
    Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-06-11 19:27 +0200
      Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Nil <rednoise9@rednoise9.invalid> - 2025-06-12 15:05 -0400

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