From alt.internet.services Tue Jan 25 11:54:25 1994 Xref: news.cs.indiana.edu alt.internet.services:16183 alt.culture.internet:1526 alt.graphics.pixutils:6884 alt.irc:16966 biz.comp.services:1253 comp.infosystems.www:6833 comp.mail.misc:15799 comp.org.usenix:4925 comp.protocols.iso:5128 comp.windows.x:78605 gnu.misc.discuss:14140 Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,alt.culture.internet,alt.graphics.pixutils,alt.irc,biz.comp.services,comp.infosystems.www,comp.mail.misc,comp.org.usenix,comp.protocols.iso,comp.windows.x,gnu.misc.discuss Path: news.cs.indiana.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!kinzler From: kinzler@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (Steve Kinzler) Subject: FAQ: Faces on the Internet Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.internet.services Summary: References to resources on the Internet dealing with faces. Keywords: faces, finger, facesaver, logos, bitmaps Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 16:12:18 GMT How can I find out what someone on the Internet looks like? =========================================================== [answered by Steve Kinzler, kinzler@cs.indiana.edu, Feb 94] There are a few on-line ways that you might be able to view an image of a particular Internet user, if you're lucky. First, if both your site and the site for the user in question are running a special version of finger that supports face images, and if a face image is available for that user, then you can use finger to view the person's face along with their ordinary finger information. Such special versions of finger are GNU finger and its derivatives. GNU finger is available from most GNU software archives, such as ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/finger*. A recommended derivative is ICSI's version available in ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu:/pub/stolcke/icsi-finger*. One GNU finger server with lots of face images available is cs.indiana.edu. Finger .help@cs.indiana.edu for details. Second, if you can expect that the person you're interested in has ever attended a Usenix conference, then they might have had their photo digitized as part of Usenix's FaceSaver project. These images and further information are available in ftp.uu.net:/published/usenix/faces. This archive is updated after each Usenix conference with a FaceSaver room. Third, there exists a collection of small bitmaps of Internet users in cs.indiana.edu:/pub/faces/facedir*. The FaceSaver images are also available in this archive in a smaller, monochrome format as facesaver*. Also, in logos*, there's a collection of bitmaps representing various Internet domains using the appropriate company or organization logo. See the README* files in these collections for information about submitting bitmaps to them. They're updated on a frequent basis as new submissions come in. They're also mirrored in ftp.uu.net:/published/usenix/faces/bundled where they're available for uucp. If you use a Web browser, a convenient way to reference these collections for a particular user is to access the "WWW to Finger Gateway" at the URL http://cs.indiana.edu/finger/gateway. When fingering via this gateway, any face and logo bitmaps available are displayed along with any finger information. Software is available that can take advantage of these bitmap collections. "xfaces" and "faces" are available in cs.indiana.edu:/pub/faces. The former runs under X11 and the latter under X11, NeWS, SunView and XView windowing systems. They can be used to monitor one's mailbox, jobs in a print queue, users on a system, unread newsgroups, weather forecasts, users on irc channels and other such things using displays of faces and logos for the items monitored. The exmh interface to the MH mail system can use these collections to display the face or logo for the mail messages it processes. It's available in parcftp.xerox.com:/pub/exmh. "Meuf" (mail enhanced using faces) is available in ftp.enst.fr:/pub/mail/meuf* and can serve as an X11 graphical interface to mail using face or logo bitmaps to represent messages in the mailbox. All these programs can recognize a special item in a mail header labelled X-Face as a compressed and encoded face bitmap for the sender of the mail message. Other software that can deal with face images in some manner are: xwafemail ftp.wu-wien.ac.at:/pub/src/X11/wafe mail interface quipu/X.500 ISO Development Environment user directory server vismon AT&T Version 8 Unix visual monitor -- from the brain of Steve Kinzler /o)\ kinzler@cs.indiana.edu an organ with a mind of its own \(o/ Hammer cricetid / payroll collegiate tetrad / embellish numbfish.