[ih] from whence cometh ">" ?

[Dave Crocker]

On 10/14/2025 4:14 PM, John Day via Internet-history wrote:
> Wasn’t the ‘official’ ARPANET format ASCII which as relate ended a line with CR LF. (Carriage Return, Line Feed)?


In practical terms, there was no 'official' email character set until, 
perhaps, RFC 475 (March 1973) with the FTP MAIL command using Telnet.  
The MLFL command doesn't seem to declare a character set.  Not that a 
year and a half with no character set 'official' convention was all that 
long...

RFC 561 (Sept 1973) did not gain traction.  RFC 733 (Nov 1977) finally 
settled forma-related issues issues.

d/

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