How about adopting the Trystero muted post horn symbol from Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49?
http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:MutedPosthorn.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_horn Here's why I think this could work well: - it's meaningful (in the book, this symbol is representative of a secret postal service) - it's symbolic, rather than literal (avoiding the various cultural variation problems covered earlier) - it's distinctive (it has an alchemical feel to it, not unlike the Quicksilver icon - Letters is a power tool for developers/computer "wizards" ;-) -- Alan Pyne _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
