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

[Craig Partridge]

Completely agree -- brain failure -- typed MHS when I meant UA, said to
myself "go fix" and failed to do so.
Sorry to have forced a correction!

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:

> 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/
>
> --
> Dave Crocker
> Brandenburg InternetWorking
> bbiw.net
>



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