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!

It's about as much to do with email as the mail-truck, mail-box, European 
post-office emblem, mail-bag, mail-sling, etc.

If we want to move away from mail (stamp, envelope, franking marks, etc. - 
everything closely associated in our psyche with "mail") then we ned something 
completely different. For example, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. That's a new 
name, and then an identifying icon (the Firefox icon *is* a "firefox").

Robin
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