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From: Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee>
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Subject: Re: x-face / face still a thing in Thunderbird?
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 22:49:14 +0200
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Paul wrote:
> On Wed, 6/11/2025 1:35 PM, sticks wrote:
>> On 6/11/2025 8:30 AM, s|b wrote:
>>> On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:31:35 -0500, sticks wrote:
>>>
>>>> just search X-face.  It's the dumbest thing ever for usenet IMO.
>>>
>>> What about Face header then?
>> 
>> What about it?
> 
> What I got here, is one was color and one was B&W.
[..snip..]
> Things like this are so archaic at times, it's hard to find a photo app
> to load them. The color one in this case, looks like it might be
> more authentic if the colors are inverted. I just happened to pick lousy
> looking samples :-) This does not appear to be a topic crying for a fix,
> because the artwork "mostly sucks" :-)
> 
> And Copilot was helpful, by pointing out "you could decode these yourself
> you know". I would pay $200 a month, to be encouraged in this way.
> 
> Some day the AI is going to answer "but you're too dumb to figure this out".

If you're using "Copilot" for stuff like this, maybe the AI would be right. ^^