Re: Some examples of sniffing usefulness

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn ant uni-bremen de>]

Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> El mar, 20-01-2004 a las 03:42, Heinrich Rebehn escribi� 
> > I have different expiriences. Opening a folder with 8,000 jpg images in 
> > nautilus takes ages, because *every* file in the folder is *opened* 
> > (although the icons have already been created) which would not be 
> > necessary if mimetype was detected by extension.
>
> The thing is, the extensions are a problem, both theoretically and
> practically (we've all seen how users of Other Operating Systems get
> bitten by this often  - may I say "e-mail worm"?).
As has been pointed out several times before on this list, theese 
problems come for *hiding the extension*, which in fact is a horrible 
default in Windows.
The extensions are *not* a problem (except that you don't seem to like 
them :-)
Heinrich