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

[John R. Levine]

>>>  From the source code to mail.c in v7 Unix, dated May 1979:
>
> And, of course, 1979 is extremely late, in terms of the current topic.

I suppose.  Berkeley didn't get Unix running on a Vax before 1979 and 
PDP-11 2BSD was also in 1979 so it's hard to see how Allman's stuff could 
have been earlier than that.

R's,
John