[ih] from whence cometh ">" ?

[John Day]

;-) lol

> On Oct 14, 2025, at 21:04, Dave Crocker <dcrocker at bbiw.net> wrote:
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> On 10/14/2025 5:22 PM, John Day wrote:
>> I was speaking of FTP where email started.
> Hmmm.  Well, strictly speaking, networked email started with Tenex CPYNET.  
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> And given the popularity of Tenex within the Arpanet community, it had a fairly robust life with until the FTP mechanism got traction a couple of years (or so) later.
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>>> On Oct 14, 2025, at 20:01, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> <mailto: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)?
>>> 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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