[ih] from whence cometh ">" ?

[Dave Crocker]

On 10/14/2025 12:58 PM, Adam Sampson via Internet-history wrote:
> It is predated by a few years by the use of > to quote lines that start
> with From in UUCP message bodies, initially for UUCP source paths, which
> might have influenced the style? The earliest two examples:

I recall the >From convention being done by Sendmail. Maybe 
delivermail.  I thought it introduced it.  (And unfortunately the 
convention persists.)

d/

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