Subj : Avatar Data Messages
To   : Digital Man
From : apam
Date : Mon Nov 15 2021 15:35:00

 > I store the name/md5->avatar mapping in a file that has the BBS-ID of
 > the source BBS in the filename (e.g. data/qnet/happylnd.avatars.ini).
 > I'm sure there are other ways do that (e.g. with a database).

Ah ok

 > Yeah, you'll probably want to change that behavior. :-)

Yep, got stuck into it and figured out a way to do it. The downside is a
lot less messages have avatars now, for example before I had an avatar
for digital man it would work on messages you post in dovenet and fsxnet,
now only dovenet (and I guess any other QWK net where your BBS name is
VERT.)

At least they should be the right ones now :)

I've just got avatars stored in bin format, in a data directory, for
example:

data/avatars/imported/21_1_182.apam.bin

and

data/avatars/imported/VERT.digital_man.bin

So the script will check the origin of the message, and if it's a local
message pull the avatar out of the local database, if not, try and pull
one of the imported avatars, if that fails display a sillouette.

Andrew

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