Comment Re:How can this be? sufixication (Score 1) 613
Except it isn't the human that puts the extension on.
I know a fair number of longtime Unix users who put ".doc" on the end of text files that contain documentation. That's an example of using the filename to know what's in the file. ".doc" to mean "Word opens me" is not going to mean much to a complete newbie who doesn't already know that correlation.
