Directory of X-Face Resources

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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.

Resources in This Category

• A Bunch of X-Faces

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~ace/X-Faces/
  A collection of X-Face images and their corresponding text.

• Ashton, James

  http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~jaa/
  Personal page of the creator of this format, includes some of his remarks on these images.

• Dairiki.org: Online X-Face Converter

  http://www.dairiki.org/xface/
  Converts various image formats to the X-Face format suitable for inclusion in e-mail or Usenet article headers.

• Mozdev.org: Mnenhy

  http://mnenhy.mozdev.org/
  Amongst several enhancements to SeaMonkey Mail/News and Mozilla Thunderbird, brings the possibility of displaying X-Face headers.

• The Face Header

  http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/
  A proposed improvement to the X-Face header. The Face header is a PNG image whereas X-Faces are one-bit images.

• Wikipedia: X-Face

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face
  Brief description of this header, its history and a list of compatible software.

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