11 Mar
2017
11 Mar
'17
5:20 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Mary Ann Horton <mah(a)mhorton.net> wrote:
So you'd think, but it appears it came first in
netnews. Mail/mailx has ~m
which indents with a tab, not a ">". Most likely in summer of 1983,
between 2.10 and 2.10.1.
Wasn't it possible to customize this in .mailrc? Something like, `set
indentprefix="> "`? I'm afraid that doesn't answer the question,
but I'm
not sure mailx/Mail as the vector is unreasonable. Is it possible someone
coming from the ARPAnet mailing list world found Unix and brought the
practice in? I'm curious what the standard was on ITS or TOPS-20, for
instance.
- Dan C.