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

[Dave Crocker]

On 7/23/2018 11:49 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> V5 did not have any `reply' command and "Save?"d "mailbox" message


The first reply command (called answer in that system) was the BBN Tenex 
(on DEC-PDP-10) MSG system written by John Vittal.  I believe it was 
also the first with forward.

There was no need for a quoting character until these functions started 
getting used.  Mid '70s.

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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