[ih] from whence cometh ">" ?

[John Day]

I was speaking of FTP where email started.

> On Oct 14, 2025, at 20:01, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> 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)?
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> 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...
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> RFC 561 (Sept 1973) did not gain traction.  RFC 733 (Nov 1977) finally settled forma-related issues issues.
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