Subj : faces
To   : All
From : Tulipant Gergely
Date : Mon Jun 16 2003 07:02 am

 * Replying to a message originally in area "C" Language

Roy J. Tellason -> all >>greetings!<< @ 15 Jun 03  04:08:51

 RJT> Nice to see a bunch of familiar "faces" in here.   :-)

  About faces... is there a proposal about associating images with Fido 
persons? Of course, it'd be most useful in GUI environments. The only thing 
I've met is GIF kludge in GoldEd:
"
GIF:<filename>.
    Invented by Henk Wever and used in his Dutchie software. The
    filename (which does not have an extension) indicates a .GIF
    picture of the author of the message. If you have the GIF file on
    your system, you can setup an external utility to view the gif at
    the press of a key.
"

  I've got a few problems with this:
   * GIF - It's not the best choice for that patent nonsense and its technical 
limitations. JFIF(JPEG) is a lot better.
   * filename - uniqueness. It should be a uuid.
   * repository - How do you download the files? It's not difficult to whip up 
a web server script that archives the files the client script requests. 
Downloading only new or updated pictures is easy, too. The tricky part is 
uploading. It should be authenticated (to prevent funny kids changing your 
pictures), but there's no global authentication in Fido. If we forget the 
kludge, and instead use name+node number to look up pictures, the server could 
at least use netmail for authentication.
   * no-one cares :)

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