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

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VanguardLH wrote:
> Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 6/10/2025 6:57 PM, 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?
>>> 
>> 
>> In this example, images of some sort (could be considered an Avatar,
>> as the resolution is not sufficient for a lot of faces), they can
>> be carried by custom header lines in the header of the message.
>> I have put some blank lines around the relevant parts.
>> 
>> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
>> References:
>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>> Injection-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:51:06 -0000 (UTC)
>> Injection-Info:
>> User-Agent: Pan/0.154 (Izium; 517acf4)
>> Cancel-Lock:
>> 
>> X-Face: =?UTF-8?B?TGxhbmZhaXLDg8KCw4LCrXB3bGxnd3luZ3lsbMODwoLDgsKtZ29nZXJ5w4PCgsOCwq1j?=
>>  =?UTF-8?B?aHd5cm7Dg8KCw4LCrQ==?=
>>  =?UTF-8?B?IGRyb2J3bGzDg8KCw4LCrWxsYW7Dg8KCw4LCrXR5c2lsaW/Dg8KCw4LCrWdvZ2/Dg8KCw4LCrWc=?=
>>  =?us-ascii?Q?och?=
>> 
>> Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwCAIAAADYYG7QAAACh0lEQVRYw71Z21bD
>>  MAzzevbfkr4cHjrSXJyL044+MDa6WLEl2SkvkrZ1AbAvXO+bUGSCPYnsuIVGMpm
>>  ZLnjX718GhAKNsp8lON2F9VrhELwIgJlBepkZjA78rVK+FkmNhEJK76UsJlz8+E
>>  rJsjrpYouhLo/SC6qPHgakFOR8wV9+8rCfO/I/oVnmUZUp42/LW2XkLj9TCFNM9
>>  jp5g2EmHZgpYZjCOkYU7sXVogRylJqpdggoFLG1g09Flah/7kErCxzR9HgXPYsq
>>  0glb9cxjIz2Vsk9AmAoCSxECpD713joMKjQqLAtmMqJmXjdVvlMnMQCVITotJd1
>>  z+fh1f1NNo+vuc1KnhWUmY7t03vydTud9BbXCtN3L2PL3bK7JCNG0GHzuZxafyB
>>  fxevCxpm1vrwZltqw6SILCcdoCE6PGQC8wZWDA9Or7Qp5s3lAZezys0nDazs9S9
>>  R0TjwEiksRxLkNPC1NMMWPs1bj0Ei0Yuo+JVtFLuzP1NRJ16qXWN8DhhtmS4PDg
>>  O6mqRxs4bEJrYt087mSIow/1VzW2oFlMQuiuIy/KsUagvhdw6hSjJGlIavbLF8x
>>  j3X47bccLcUSi0dkWh1nUZNhANT1tHKUXrNxNLbd9KPb9wDDVrKwmPQMOPQ1oy6
>>  k5I1DwzDeRJd3jVIhDAUxq3ngzJG4CCkNXZxZVMcjefoK2J0gUY2S3rxz/RuTFx
>>  2zHd9U+obimJXMG4edsk/2j5pTU5G1MmzbRLxkfq5EiT1GGsidvMGzi+1goGb2l
>>  GCrN+nGnV8xj3q3JLRDVPL96vUc7Z4aJ3TN1mVqWAMJMfG+Jxh6TQqP+92iZkCU
>>  xtglds1AB6r0aiSHKcnFck+p/c/0CbacFLQcajGcAAAAASUVORK5CYII=
>> 
>> Xref: ...
>> 
>> There are two representations there. Your newsreader might need
>> an add-on or extension, to allow those to be viewed.
> 
> While I see the x-faces in a header section of the message view pane in
> my NNTP client (40tude Dialog, abandoned 20 years ago), I wish there
> were an easy way to filter out or hide that cutsey glitz from messages.
> I can test on the presense of those headers, and that they have
> non-blank values, but I really just want to hide the garbage rather than
> filter out messages from posters that choose glitz over substance.

For older versions of TB there was an AddOn named "mnenhy" with
witch you could suppress the "X-Face:" header via config:
user_pref("extensions.mnenhy.headers.noxface", true);

That's just one of the reasons i still use TB 38.
But if you use "40tude Dialog, abandoned 20 years ago" - good luck!

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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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