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  • Re: Avatars

    From Tracker1@1:103/705 to Tony Langdon on Thu Feb 4 05:06:09 2021
    On 1/31/2021 12:36 AM, Tony Langdon wrote:
    I just noticed that avatars are workingin FTN fed echo areas - nice
    work :)

    Now if only the author of Multimail could add avatar support, so I can see them. :)

    You'd need access to the SBBSDATA echo as part of your multimail feed,
    and it would need to keep a local database.

    I do think a web service lookup would be a good idea for other clients
    to integrate with. Though it might bloat the output, even having the
    author avatar as a header in the qwk packet as an option for each
    message or extension file might be an idea as well.
    --
    Michael J. Ryan (tracker1)
    +o roughneckbbs.com
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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Tracker1 on Sun Feb 7 19:17:00 2021
    On 02-04-21 05:06, Tracker1 wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    Now if only the author of Multimail could add avatar support, so I can see them. :)

    You'd need access to the SBBSDATA echo as part of your multimail feed,
    and it would need to keep a local database.

    Well, the first part is easy, given that I would be accessing my BBS.

    I do think a web service lookup would be a good idea for other clients
    to integrate with. Though it might bloat the output, even having the author avatar as a header in the qwk packet as an option for each
    message or extension file might be an idea as well.

    Sounds like it needs a bit of thought. I haven't looked into avatars at all yet, because for me they currently serve no practical purpose.


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