On Fri, February 8, 2008 09:42, David Nicol wrote:
with the way that gmail shows faces for people who have registered a face with the gmail system, it's kind of surprising that they haven't bothered to support X-Face and Face both inbound and outbound.
I don't agree. Within gmail, all they do is link the address to the image so they can pull it up for display. This business of sending a whole image with each message is stupid and wasteful, and I'm going to find a way to filter or block messages that use it.
Some people actually use their email. We're talking a few hundred messages a day, and the storage adds up even if it's only text. If it's a chain of negotiation or diagnostics in a business situation, the chain needs to be saved permanently. Take a few dozen people in an office, mailing images, drawings, supporting documents, require that things not be deleted or archived for 90 days or so, and you have a real storage problem. Throw in a bunch of idiots using HTML messages with logos and stationary and faces and icards and you've got a REAL headache.
Email is text. If you want graphics, throw up a web page somewhere.