From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross)
Subject: [TUHS] B-news source code
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 23:20:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W45m2coeGoWCf6o7TXPAjb+rnLPgZtoOOEEXHJaTkQ0Rw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb351ba3-7031-aede-7036-034c14523a3f@mhorton.net>
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Mary Ann Horton <mah at mhorton.net> wrote:
> 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.
Wasn't it possible to customize this in .mailrc? Something like, `set
indentprefix="> "`? I'm afraid that doesn't answer the question, but I'm
not sure mailx/Mail as the vector is unreasonable. Is it possible someone
coming from the ARPAnet mailing list world found Unix and brought the
practice in? I'm curious what the standard was on ITS or TOPS-20, for
instance.
- Dan C.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-10 9:49 [TUHS] C-news is built Warren Toomey
2017-03-10 10:29 ` [TUHS] pathalias and mail maps Warren Toomey
2017-03-10 10:49 ` Jacob Goense
2017-03-10 15:45 ` Erik E. Fair
2017-03-10 17:52 ` [TUHS] C-news is built John Floren
2017-03-10 21:14 ` Nick Downing
2017-03-10 21:30 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-10 21:51 ` Nick Downing
2017-03-11 4:57 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-10 21:34 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-10 22:48 ` John Floren
2017-03-11 0:05 ` [TUHS] B-news source code Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-11 0:15 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-11 2:21 ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-11 4:20 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2017-03-11 3:01 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-11 3:13 Doug McIlroy
2017-03-11 13:13 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
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