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

[Dave Crocker]

On 7/23/2018 3:19 PM, Craig Partridge wrote:
> Yes both Answer (now called reply) and Forward were invented in MSG, 
> sometime between 1974 (when Vittal got Yonke's BANANARD software) and 
> 1976 (by which time MSG was a fully fledged MHS).


<quibble>

MSG was only an MUA and never did transport.  So it was specifically not 
an MHS.

It invoked SNDMSG to send mail.  And it relied on the existing 
receiver-side software to get mail into the inbox.

</quibble>


d/

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