14 Aug
2024
14 Aug
'24
8:51 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 2:47 PM Rich Salz <rich.salz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I always thought the five control-A's were a
failure of imagination
True. I joined BBN after the TCP/IP flag day, after 4.2BSD, and so on.
When I used MH, it kept one message/file; I only know the control-a thing
from MMDF.
Rich, that was a much later version.
ᐧ
(never
going to send binary?).
As always, it's about history and how they got there. What was
reasonable for one group, over time was not for another.