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[ih] Fwd: Reporter query on the history of greater-than in quoted replies

Subject: [ih] Fwd: Reporter query on the history of greater-than in quoted replies
From: jaap at NLnetLabs.nl (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 15:46:16 +0100
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
References: <r473Ps-10122i-AA8AAD87C0844CD2A898D846CBDB57B9@Mininum-Minival.local> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>

 Tony Finch writes:

 > 
 > 4.3BSD isn't amazingly early, but its version of MH includes some lovely
 > bits about quoted replies. The READ-ME is a message dated 30 Jan 1986 from
 > Bob Desinger who describes it as
 > 
 > > prepended with those nice "> " netnews-style borders
 > 
 > https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/tree/BSD-4_3-Snapshot-Development/usr/contrib/mh/miscellany/replies


Yes, I do vaguely remember that the habit started with replies in
readnews from B-news but I don't have sources (nor time) to check that.

	jaap

References:
- [ih] Fwd: Reporter query on the history of greater-than in quoted replies
  - From: dhc2 at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker)
- [ih] Fwd: Reporter query on the history of greater-than in quoted replies
  - From: dhc2 at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker)
- [ih] Fwd: Reporter query on the history of greater-than in quoted replies
  - From: dot at dotat.at (Tony Finch)

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