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    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Paul Quinn on Thu Apr 23 21:45:00 2020
    Hello Paul!

    ** On 15.04.20 - 08:40, Paul Quinn wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

    Is a .jpg file supposed to be a form/variant of the GIF standard?

    @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.

    Reminds me of X-Face I've seen used by some nntp readers.

    The FidoLook plugin for Outlook Express did a nice job of making ng
    messages emulate echomail, and I think it supported X-Face too.

    I guess it would be akin to having an avatar per message.


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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to August Abolins on Fri Apr 24 11:56:06 2020
    Hi! August,

    On 23 Apr 20 21:45, you wrote to me:

    The FidoLook plugin for Outlook Express did a nice job of making ng messages emulate echomail, and I think it supported X-Face too.

    I never got to suss-out that package. It was popular in some eastern Eurpoean states IIRC.

    I guess it would be akin to having an avatar per message.

    Yeah, something simple could have been interesting. But even the author(s) lost the plot. By now the technology is ancient voodoo. Gee whiz at the time, last century.

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/360 to Paul Quinn on Fri Apr 24 20:08:32 2020
    On 23/04/2020 9:56 p.m., Paul Quinn : August Abolins wrote:


    The FidoLook plugin for Outlook Express did a nice job of making
    ng messages emulate echomail, and I think it supported X-Face
    too.

    I never got to suss-out that package. It was popular in some
    eastern Eurpoean states IIRC.

    You can still play with it if you have OE and a minimum of XP or Win7.

    The quoting feature was excellent. It automatically converted/matched the ||| bars that most people would use to their correct initials if the Fn and Ln were
    present in the From field.


    I guess it would be akin to having an avatar per message.

    Yeah, something simple could have been interesting. But even the
    author(s) lost the plot. By now the technology is ancient voodoo.
    Gee whiz at the time, last century.

    x-face was a rather nice way to add bit of personality to a message above and beyond a standard sig.

    The weak link was the way OE stored messages. After much use and large files, the .dbx files started to corrupt and then you would loose everything!



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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Paul Quinn on Fri Apr 24 09:06:00 2020
    Paul Quinn wrote to August Abolins <=-

    The FidoLook plugin for Outlook Express did a nice job of making ng messages emulate echomail, and I think it supported X-Face too.

    I never got to suss-out that package. It was popular in some eastern Eurpoean states IIRC.

    I thought I was the only person who missed Outlook Express. I used it on the BBS VM for years with a quoting plugin that changed the quoting behavior to bottom-quoting.

    I'm using Mozilla SeaMonkey now on the BBS, as I'm looking for a low-
    resource web.email.chat client, and it reminds me of the early 2000s. :)


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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to Kurt Weiske on Sat Apr 25 10:57:49 2020
    Hi! Kurt,

    On 24 Apr 20 09:06, you wrote to me:

    I'm using Mozilla SeaMonkey now on the BBS, as I'm looking for a low- resource web.email.chat client, and it reminds me of the early 2000s.
    :)

    Fidonet reminds me of that. ;) Ermm... we were talking about the 'FidoLook' addon for OE. OE, I used for years in a work setting. I've only ever heard of the FidoLook thingie in a Scarlet Pimpernel fashion.

    I've been doing Thunderbird at home since Netscape went away, I think.

    Cheers,
    Paul.

    ... To err is human, to forgive is against SysOp policy.
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