On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Roy Badami <r...@gnomon.org.uk> wrote: > 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).
His point (pun intended) stands. SMTP uses "." terminator, which also causes annoying confusion. You shouldn't need to escape and unescape data that is not being interpreted in any way. -- Jeff Garzik exMULTI, Inc. jgar...@exmulti.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
