email attachment icons

[Derek Broughton]

Jimmy Wu wrote:

>> > >
>> > > This is kind of a trivial question.
>> > > The other day, I was checking email on my ubuntu machine, and I saw
>> > > that a .doc that someone had emailed me showed up in gmail with a
>> > > Microsoft
>> > > Word icon next to it.  That kind of ticked me off a little (grrr :-)
>> > > ) -
>>
> Thanks for the replies
> Darn gmail for assuming the world uses Windows! :)

I don't see the assumption - they're just noting that it's a Word file.  I'd
rather be warned that it's a Word file than just treat it as any other
OpenOffice document.
-- 
derek