From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Tff09-0002sF-4n for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:00:37 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from mail-pb0-f47.google.com ([209.85.160.47]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1Tff08-00013S-8P for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:00:37 +0000 Received: by mail-pb0-f47.google.com with SMTP id un1so2174742pbc.34 for ; Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:00:30 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=flCprGo+Rf7fXFwCrITKbu1a0EwKQjvb+Duo6fil+J4=; b=ETlpi6xJ6mKITk7kfKucouGV8veZDjDtcphqJj0KwjLye3b1epPfXwv9GNDcdqhU7g vWhG3P5ErQzN8x+QnxWb+HFEDGkHCWcEv+L0XNnb7C2/F1ngI+MtSJVl/9Bu/q22NvrU Y1mGjgsnGfCkqqiyvq3chUdr05dw61l7MqcOTbh/Afhwmsp0NHHmF++CseiovL/w0hGc Fa2Rj3xhP7ch5GZv/V8pL5+KSE5CeEnoWtayGRxz8Uq++LF8X1T8uN6e5g53TDbt+0tU 8o3kD/MGVVPDhArt2nU5FxXCfIqCYRHHbQ/SP7Z+oPjteoo6FdsVxvq8dmv85EYLU+TL VyqQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.245.167 with SMTP id xp7mr33699417pbc.75.1354574052657; Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:34:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.196.201 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Dec 2012 14:34:12 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [2001:4830:1603:2:21c:c0ff:fe79:c8c2] In-Reply-To: <20121203222629.GK6368@giles.gnomon.org.uk> References: <20121128233619.GA6368@giles.gnomon.org.uk> <20121129170713.GD6368@giles.gnomon.org.uk> <20121129185330.GE6368@giles.gnomon.org.uk> <20121203222629.GK6368@giles.gnomon.org.uk> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 17:34:12 -0500 Message-ID: From: Jeff Garzik To: Roy Badami Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlHS+638uGFDxT3kSC+FbB/oz50DMfq76Utr8EGKXirngSimSSkeM1Devbr3S99sEvvvQ8O X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. X-Headers-End: 1Tff08-00013S-8P Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:00:37 -0000 On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Roy Badami 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. jgarzik@exmulti.com