[ih] from whence cometh ">" ?

[John Day]

Ooops! That one got away from me and just noticed it.

You are absolutely right, David.  It is absolutely clear that the SMTP was derived from Tenex mail.
The similarity in the commands and responses is unmistakable! How did I miss it!

Thanks for pointing it out.

Take care,
John

> On Oct 15, 2025, at 05:58, John Day via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> ;-) lol
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>> On Oct 14, 2025, at 21:04, Dave Crocker <dcrocker at bbiw.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.  
>> 
>> 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:
>>>> 
>>>> 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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>> d/
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