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    From deon@VERT/ALTERANT to Digital Man on Sunday, January 31, 2021 10:08:39
    Howdy,

    I just noticed that avatars are workingin FTN fed echo areas - nice work :)

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to deon on Saturday, January 30, 2021 15:26:24
    Re: Avatars
    By: deon to Digital Man on Sun Jan 31 2021 10:08 am

    Howdy,

    I just noticed that avatars are workingin FTN fed echo areas - nice work :)

    Thanks. :-) It was my intention all along, but I didn't consider that most sysops would only import SYNCDATA via one network technology (e.g. QWKnet) while seeing messages from those same systems/users on other network technologies (e.g. FTN) - so there was a gap there in the association between the 2 net-types and thus avatars weren't usually working on FTNs. It was pretty easy to fix but does require that systems update to SBBSecho v3.12 to see the benefit.
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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to deon on Sunday, January 31, 2021 18:36:00
    On 01-31-21 10:08, deon wrote to Digital Man <=-

    Howdy,

    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. :)


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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to Tony Langdon on Thursday, February 04, 2021 05:06:09
    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.
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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to Tracker1 on Sunday, February 07, 2021 19:17:00
    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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