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

[John Levine]

In article <2494e213-91a5-b3d1-e727-428a9fd9c9a0 at dcrocker.net> you write:
>That is, Eric wrote both delivermail and sendmail.  As I recall, 
>delivermail was essentially a switching mechanism, cobbling together 
>existing email functions.  sendmail was more integrated.

I suppose we could ask Eric.  In that era code and people were flowing
back and forth between Berkeley and Bell Labs.  Since >From apparently
appeared in both places by 1979 it's anyone's guess which way it
initially went.

R's,
John