Roy Badami [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2012-12-03 📝 Original message:On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2012-12-03
📝 Original message: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
📝 Original message: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