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From: dhc at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 15:26:48 -0700
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On 7/23/2018 3:19 PM, Craig Partridge wrote:
> Yes both Answer (now called reply) and Forward were invented in MSG, 
> sometime between 1974 (when Vittal got Yonke's BANANARD software) and 
> 1976 (by which time MSG was a fully fledged MHS).

<quibble>

MSG was only an MUA and never did transport.  So it was specifically not 
an MHS.

It invoked SNDMSG to send mail.  And it relied on the existing 
receiver-side software to get mail into the inbox.

</quibble>

d/

-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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