I changed systems to many times and in the old days storage was so expensive, email got archived to tape thinking if I needed its I would read it later - then either did pull want a wanted or let if go fallow and the the bits decay.

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 04:35:24PM -0700, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
>    That's interesting, Clem.  It would be useful to date the real date of
>    the first email attachment sent.  Right now the only firm date we have
>    is 6/1/80.  Do you have any old email or copy of uuencode that could
>    establish an earlier date?

Surely someone here has an archive of e-mail that they can grep through.
I just did:

$ grep ^begin 198*/*/*          [ yyyy/mm/dd ]

and hit an e-mail in 1989. My archive only goes back to 1985 though.

Cheers, Warren