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

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Jack Haverty wrote:
> My recollection is that the ">" convention began very early in the
> history, probably 1972 +- a year or so.  At that time, I used a PDP-10
> running ITS (MIT-DM).  Incoming mail was appended to a file in your
> directory.  Outgoing mail was usually prepared in an editor (Emacs or
> TECO)

EMACS first appeared in 1976.  I actually have EMACS version 24 running;
it's from November that year.  It can call out to the RMAIL TECO package
for hanling email.  RMAIL predates EMACS by a few years or so.