[ih] Email and address books

[John R. Levine]

>> For reasons you can probably guess, I'm researching when people
>> started keeping address books in MUAs.  Any pointers?
>>
>
> Do you count CLI MUA's?
> Either mail or Mail had an alias file on Unix is mid '80s. I can't be
> certain but suspect RAND/MX MAIL did too.

We Alpine users definitely count CLI MUAs.  I should go back and take a 
look.  The question I need to look at is how you picked an address out of 
the alias file, e.g., was there anything like partial match or 
autocomplete?

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