[ih] Fwd: Reporter query on the history of greater-than in quoted replies

[Jaap Akkerhuis]

 Tony Finch writes:

 > 
 > 4.3BSD isn't amazingly early, but its version of MH includes some lovely
 > bits about quoted replies. The READ-ME is a message dated 30 Jan 1986 from
 > Bob Desinger who describes it as
 > 
 > > prepended with those nice "> " netnews-style borders
 > 
 > https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/tree/BSD-4_3-Snapshot-Development/usr/contrib/mh/miscellany/replies


Yes, I do vaguely remember that the habit started with replies in
readnews from B-news but I don't have sources (nor time) to check that.

	jaap