Re: Using Log-in Images
  By: Digital Man to Mortar on Sun Nov 17 2024 11:47 am

 DM> The images you speak of are encoded and sent in Sixel format.
 DM> Theoretically, yes, a Sixel image could be placed in-line in a message.
 DM> Unfortunately, it'd the image data would be sent to every user's terminal
 DM> that viewed that message (whether they supported Sixel or not) and appear
 DM> as garbage to non-Sixel terminals. But it's an idea...!

Maybe a message reader could do some parsing of the message and hide the sixel session if the user's terminal isn't capable of displaying sixel images.  It looks like sixel images start with an ESC character and end with ESC\

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