[ih] Email and address books

[Cameron Simpson]

On 24May2012 06:17, Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:
| On 5/23/2012 5:36 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
| > Do you count CLI MUA's?
| "CLI"?  command line interface?
| 
| > 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.
| 
| Typically, an alias file is part of the underlying mail infrastructure, 
| rather than being a personal address book.

I'm fairly sure I had personal aliases i.e. as things called "aliases" in a
text file consulted my command line mail reader in the 80s. It was
pretty normal to have personal aliases.
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