11 Mar
2017
11 Mar
'17
3:21 a.m.
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.
On 03/10/2017 04:15 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
Wouldn't this have happened first in email, like
Mail or mailx?
Hard to say, I'd guess sometime in the 1980's?
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 04:05:56PM -0800, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
> Where can I find source code for various versions of netnews?
>
> In particular I'm looking for B news 2.10.1.
>
> A historian is trying to track down where the ">" was first used in
quoting
> news or email. It's not in 2.10 (I do have that source code) but I suspect
> it's in 2.10.1.
>
> If anyone recalls where this originated, please let me know.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mary Ann