-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ***^\ ."_)~~ ~( __ _"o Was Thu, 2 Sep 2004, at 10:26:40 +1000, @ @ when Robin Anson wrote:
> the only benefit of 2.12 (as I recall) is to show smileys that I think > are a waste of time and effort and sender's photos in the header that > are mildly interesting but hardly essential. Just some irrelevant musings of mine in regard to the smiley thing... For me, the technics/smiley "machine" is interesting: you can call by "handle" some graphics dwelling locally on a reader's machine and you don't need at all to use any "official" "smiley" coming in official package at all. You can use *any* other handles and any other pictures/"smileys" you like; and which are not listed and known publicly at all. (-: So you can create any number of a "custom" schemes and pictures related to a specific correspondent you exchange letters with. Result can be very pretty - you don't want to use any other format except a plain text to have a picture shown in the "body" of it. Example: If you play, or just learn and analyze, chess, then a picture of a chess table can be loaded in a proper place - just in the middle of a plain text! You hence do not need any paunchy HTML or RTF format to "embed" the picture in. (-: And, you can in the same time use any convenient "features" of TB (folders, filters, searching machine...) for organizing/archiving such a mail. There. (: Whatever creator(s) of the "smiley machine" had in mind initially, this mechanism obviously can be implemented in much more useful, and tempered, way. (-: Appendix (the one on the right of bladder): you can also implement something similar with "rogue header", that is with the "system" which shows "sender's picture": you and some specific sender/"sendress" may apply a local system of rogue headers which will show adequate pictures (therefore not only *one* of them), and will carry a defined "message" "under cover". It's good if someone is reading your mail, over your shoulder or else, or else in general. This way this mechanism becomes a means for "secret messaging" as well. You can also classify various "types" of such messages just by searching for adequate "rogue headers", apply a given filtering, "automatic answering" etc. It's nice. (-: Ah, an example: you and correspondent have a "system" of several "rogue" pictures and headers. Let's say that all the pictures are identical, except some tiny details coming from a slight editing of the pictures; in one of them you will have a small bug on your neck, on another one the bug will be on your ear, etc. The position of the bug will carry some "message": "bug on neck" = "I do not mean it seriously, I just am teasing and testing possible eavesdroppers"; "bug on ear" = "Come at six at Ruffus' to tell you some details about this letter" - etc. Isn't that nice, and *really* funny? (-: Now I go to milk my cow. Kidding. (: Going to buy some milk. Mica hungry. Musings spend calories. - -- Mica PGP key uploaded at: <http://pgp.mit.edu/> once just before breakfast -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFBNxpv9q62QPd3XuIRAoVjAJ46/gKyVEOwU69mFjjlarz3jVdobwCdFps6 avdHj7bJKJHSRi8PVfcYFAo= =ffGy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.00.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
