Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Frank Miller Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.thunderbird Subject: Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird? Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 03:44:50 +0200 Organization: Tschorkauer Zwetschgen-Pressen-Museum Message-ID: <6848DF92.2030400@backwurst.de> References: <102a9p9$1gkaf$1@dont-email.me> <102ad83$1htk3$1@dont-email.me> <102aet3$1iaaj$1@dont-email.me> <1wky1io9qwr85$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="687129"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Pillepalle Cancel-Lock: sha1:w5S94lnoBakogP3Nj/K0c47X9Uw= X-User-ID: eJwNyMEBgDAIBMGWPAJLLMcI9F+CznNiId50Ao+JqSl2X69Y3ZwiTZk1cmwbBySctrifP/UBHdgQeg== In-Reply-To: <1wky1io9qwr85$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.thunderbird:16920 VanguardLH wrote: > Paul 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!