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Maybe we did, maybe we didn’t – I don’t know yet.  However, reading this blog post about WCF support for devices and taking the route of email as the transport mechanism, it’s sure phrased as if

1. we thought up the idea of making method calls over email and
2. we implemented it outside of the existing docs related to SOAP over SMTP.

http://blogs.msdn.com/romanbat/archive/2006/10/21/windows-communication-foundation-compact-edition-and-the-story-of-the-lunch-launcher.aspx

So, at some point Mike Zintel started promoting an idea of using e-mail as a web service transport and putting a programming model on top of it.  Hmm, e-mail!? I was really skeptical about this at first, as probably many of you are now.