14 Aug
2024
14 Aug
'24
8:57 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 2:51 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 2:47 PM Rich Salz <rich.salz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
FWIW: The big complaint about MH was not the mailbox format, it was that
Bruce stored your files in separate files, which on a small machine like a
PDP-11, eats up inode space, although it made doing things like grep and
finding something easy.
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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.
(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.