Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote: |> Wouldn't [> in quoted mail] have happened first in email, like Mail \ |> or mailx? | |Mailx doesn't do it now, so it probably didn't do it then. It seems to have entered Mail not before 1988, when Edward Wang replaced the fixed "\t" prefix with a "tabstr" variable (he credits Tom Newcomb, newcomb at arpa, for this). In 1989 he changed "tabstr" to "indentprefix" and quotes "to be Sun compatible". --steffen