From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 13:41:31 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] who invented the email attachment?
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2017, Mary Ann Horton wrote:

>  1. Originally, our files were all plain text and we just included them in
>     the email message body.  The ~r command in Kurt Shoen's Mail program was
>     typical.  There was no name for this, we were just emailing files.

1.5 They started to include in-line shell scripts, then we piped them 
    into the "unshar" utility, which did basic security checks.

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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."