On 29 Jan 2010, at 20:42, LuKreme wrote:
> On 29-Jan-2010, at 11:36, Robin Benson wrote:
>>
>> On 30/01/2010, at 7:29 AM, LuKreme wrote:
>>> Actually, I now think that the most obvious symbol is an @ sign, and I
>>> think we should look at building an icon around that.
>>
>> There is nothing about the @ sign that represents email at all!
>
> Except for that niggling little fact that every single email address has an @
> sign in it, and has done for about 20 years (since …!apple!ucsc!uscb!kreme
> addresses went away)
There were no @ signs in X.400 either!
But back to the point - unfortunately for us, other sorts of current in-use
addressing schemes also have @ signs, eg XMPP ("Jabber") instant messaging
addresses, Twitter, etc.
Cheers,
Chris
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