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

[John R. Levine]

> My >>memory<< was use of mbox was driven by ATT not outside like ArpaNet needs (which drove Rand).

Oh, definitely.  The earliest AT&T Unix I used in about 1975 had mbox 
mailboxes which are clearly a hack someone invented in about two minutes 
when he realized that he'd save a lot of disk space by putting all the 
mail in one file rather than a file per message.

I don't remember whether they did >From quoting before the v7 mail program 
I found.

R's,
John