Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 17:26:29 -0500
From: Roy Badami <roy@gnomon.org.uk>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Proposal:
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 10:28:13PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Witness the absurd design of SMTP that means you can't
> start a paragraph with the word From because that's a new-message
> marker!

Actually that has absolutely nothing to do with SMTP.  It's down to
the file format of the standard BSD UNIX mailbox (which uses lines
beginning with 'From ' to delimit messages).

roy