+# Compute the picon url for a given email, by using the picon search service over at
+# http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/search.html
+sub picon_url {
+ my $email = lc shift;
+ if (!$avatar_cache{$email}) {
+ my ($user, $domain) = split('@', $email);
+ $avatar_cache{$email} =
+ "http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/kinzler/piconsearch.cgi/" .
+ "$domain/$user/" .
+ "users+domains+unknown/up/single";
+ }
+ return $avatar_cache{$email};
+}
+