What are Picons? To quote directly from the Picons Web site:
Picons is short for "personal icons". They're small, constrained images used to represent users and domains on the net, organized into databases so that the appropriate image for a given e-mail address can be found. Besides users and domains, there are picon databases for Usenet newsgroups and weather forecasts. The picons are in either monochrome
XBM
format or colorXPM
andGIF
formats.
If you have a permanent connection to the Internet you can use Steve
Kinzler's Picons Search engine by setting
gnus-picons-piconsearch-url
to the string
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/search.html.
Otherwise you need a local copy of his database. For instructions on
obtaining and installing the picons databases, point your Web browser at
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/index.html. Gnus expects
picons to be installed into a location pointed to by
gnus-picons-database
.
If you are using Debian GNU/Linux, saying `apt-get install picons.*' will install the picons where Gnus can find them.
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