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From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [TUHS] attachments: MIME and uuencode
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:11:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2P5hQ=3p47VZPu7E5vHSLzn-wFhdDSGKChz2WqJs=1K=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170313000910.GA22985@minnie.tuhs.org>

I changed systems to many times and in the old days storage was so
expensive, email got archived to tape thinking if I needed its I would read
it later - then either did pull want a wanted or let if go fallow and the
the bits decay.

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 04:35:24PM -0700, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
> >    That's interesting, Clem.  It would be useful to date the real date of
> >    the first email attachment sent.  Right now the only firm date we have
> >    is 6/1/80.  Do you have any old email or copy of uuencode that could
> >    establish an earlier date?
>
> Surely someone here has an archive of e-mail that they can grep through.
> I just did:
>
> $ grep ^begin 198*/*/*          [ yyyy/mm/dd ]
>
> and hit an e-mail in 1989. My archive only goes back to 1985 though.
>
> Cheers, Warren
>
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-11 19:07 Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-11 23:01 ` Paul Winalski
2017-03-11 23:05   ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-12  1:14     ` Dan Cross
2017-03-12  6:28       ` jsteve
2017-03-12 23:41         ` Gregg Levine
2017-03-13  0:00           ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-13  1:59             ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-12 23:43       ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-12 21:10   ` Dave Horsfall
     [not found]     ` <12de3888-3a82-4a8c-9177-50e6cb4cb931.maildroid@localhost>
2017-03-19  2:34       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-12 13:53 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-03-12 17:42 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-12 23:35   ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-13  0:07     ` Clem Cole
2017-03-13  0:09     ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-13  0:11       ` Clem Cole [this message]
2017-03-12 15:10 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-12 18:13 Doug McIlroy
2017-03-12 18:22 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-12 18:26 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-13  0:34   ` Dan Cross
2017-03-13  1:28     ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-13  5:39       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-13 11:37   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-13 20:21     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-13 22:14       ` Doug McIlroy
2017-03-14 10:49         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-12 18:33 ` Paul Winalski
2017-03-13  5:58   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-12 18:57 Andy Valencia
2017-03-12 20:04 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-12 21:34 ` Random832
2017-03-12 22:12   ` Noel Chiappa
2017-03-13 14:58     ` Michael Kjörling
2017-03-13 21:56       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-14 10:33         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-16 18:52         ` Michael Kjörling

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