Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm not to concerned about attaching a couple hundred bytes to all my
> outgoing e-mails, but I certainly wouldn't want those bytes to be a
> picture of me. I don't think that there are that many people in the
> world who want my face looking at them from their computer screen. If
> they _do_ want pictures of me, they can probably figure out where to
> find some.
There are some interesting human interaction theories behind X-Face. A
large part of the initial concept was to present a face to the people
you're interacting with electronically, which can have the effect of
reminding people that they're interacting with a human. At least some
people will tend not to gratuitously flame as much when they're seeing a
human face.
Given the minimal byte cost, I don't think it's a particularly harmful
experiment. I'm personally paranoid enough that I'd rather not widely
advertise what I look like to any random person, but that's just my
personal hang-up.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
