Information about X Face
An X-Face is a small bitmap (48 × 48 pixels, black and white) image which is added to a Usenet posting or e-mail message, typically showing a picture of the author's face. The image data is included in the posting as encoded text, and attached with an 'X-Face' header. It was devised by James Ashton.
It is one of the outgrowths of the Vismon program developed at Bell Labs in the 1980s. Many programs support X-Faces. Most of them are Free software and based on Unix or its variations. There are online, Web based X-Face generators and well distributed programs such as KMail or Sylpheed.
Not all Email clients can handle an X-Face header. Mail programs installed on most domestic or business computers cannot deal with it. Even in the university and research environments which use Unix, there are but few installations which exploit X-faces fully by giving images for all senders and offering the recipient several views (incoming, archived, etc) on the individual or collected faces.
Note that the X-Face format is different from the Face format used by the Thunderbird [https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/393/ MessageFaces plugin] and other mail readers.
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It is one of the outgrowths of the Vismon program developed at Bell Labs in the 1980s. Many programs support X-Faces. Most of them are Free software and based on Unix or its variations. There are online, Web based X-Face generators and well distributed programs such as KMail or Sylpheed.
Not all Email clients can handle an X-Face header. Mail programs installed on most domestic or business computers cannot deal with it. Even in the university and research environments which use Unix, there are but few installations which exploit X-faces fully by giving images for all senders and offering the recipient several views (incoming, archived, etc) on the individual or collected faces.
Note that the X-Face format is different from the Face format used by the Thunderbird [https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/393/ MessageFaces plugin] and other mail readers.
See also
External links
- Online X-Face Converter - a detailed description
- X-Faces - A collection of X-Faces
- Mnenhy - an extension that displays X-Faces for the Thunderbird Email and News client and also for the Mozilla Application Suite and its successor SeaMonkey
- Image::XFace - a Perl module for encoding and decoding X-Face images
- xface-HowTo - A very short howto for creating configuration for X-Face images for the mutt Email client and the slrn News client
- MesNews - the news client MesNews supports X-Face by default. The image for own messages can be set up easily.
bitmap or pixmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images. The term bitmap comes from the computer programming terminology, meaning just a map of bits, a spatially mapped array of bits.
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Usenet (USEr NETwork) is a global, decentralized, distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name. It was conceived by Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979.
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In information technology, Header refers to supplemental data placed at the beginning of a block of data being stored or transmitted, which contain information for the handling of the data block.
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Vismon was the Bell Labs system which put author's faces on one of their internal e-mail system. The name was a pun on the sysmon program used at Bell to show the load on computer systems. It can also be interpreted as "visual monitor".
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Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) is part of the research and development organization of Alcatel-Lucent and previously the United States Bell System.
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Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things.
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Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy.
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KMail is the e-mail client of the KDE desktop environment.
It supports folders, filtering, viewing HTML mail, and international character sets. It can handle IMAP, dIMAP [1] , POP3, and local mailboxes for incoming mail. It can send mail via SMTP or sendmail.
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It supports folders, filtering, viewing HTML mail, and international character sets. It can handle IMAP, dIMAP [1] , POP3, and local mailboxes for incoming mail. It can send mail via SMTP or sendmail.
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Maintainer: Hiroyuki Yamamoto
OS: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, BSD, Unix
Use: E-mail client, news client
License: GPL/LGPL
Website: sylpheed.sraoss.
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OS: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, BSD, Unix
Use: E-mail client, news client
License: GPL/LGPL
Website: sylpheed.sraoss.
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An e-mail client is a frontend computer program used to manage e-mail. Large all-in-one e-mail clients such as the open source Mozilla Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook today combine the operations of an MSA, MDA, MRA and MUA in one application.
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For other uses, see Avatar (disambiguation).
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Maintainer: Apple Inc.
OS: Mac OS X
Use: Instant messaging client
License: Proprietary
Website: Apple: iChat
iChat is an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), and .Mac, client by Apple Inc. for their Mac OS X operating system.
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OS: Mac OS X
Use: Instant messaging client
License: Proprietary
Website: Apple: iChat
iChat is an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), and .Mac, client by Apple Inc. for their Mac OS X operating system.
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Maintainer: Mozilla Corporation
OS: Cross-platform
Available language(s): Multilingual
Use: E-mail client and news client
License: MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Website: www.mozilla.
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OS: Cross-platform
Available language(s): Multilingual
Use: E-mail client and news client
License: MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Website: www.mozilla.
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Maintainer: Mozilla Foundation
OS: Cross-platform
Use: Internet suite
License: MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Website: www.mozilla.
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OS: Cross-platform
Use: Internet suite
License: MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Website: www.mozilla.
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Seamonkey may refer to:
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- Sea-Monkey, a type of brine shrimp
- SeaMonkey is the continuation of the Mozilla Application Suite (which was codenamed Seamonkey)
- The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys, a television series.
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A Perl module is a discrete component of software for the Perl programming language. A module is distinguished by a unique namespace, e.g. "CGI" or "Net::FTP" or "XML::Parser" and a filename similarly named (ie. Net::FTP lives in Net/FTP.pm).
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slrn is an open source text-based news client. It was originally developed for Unix-like operating systems, but is now available for many other operating systems, including Microsoft Windows.
slrn runs through a textual user interface and is highly customizable.
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slrn runs through a textual user interface and is highly customizable.
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