Package: picon-usenix (95.04.13-1)

Picon (Personal Images) db of Usenix conference attendees.

   "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 picons databases for
  Usenet newsgroups and weather forecasts. The picons are in either
  monochrome XBM format or color XPM and GIF formats.

  These databases have been compiled in hopes of helping make cyberspace
  a more personable place. With them, software and services can be
  developed to identify persons on the net by face (or, at least, by
  institution logo) instead of by a cryptic e-mail address. Software of
  this kind is for example xfaces and exmh.