[TUHS] Mailer History -- was Berkeley CSRG Building

[Clem Cole]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 2:51 PM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 2:47 PM Rich Salz <rich.salz at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>   I always thought the five control-A's were a failure of imagination
>>>> (never going to send binary?).
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>>> As always, it's about history and how they got there.  What was
>>> reasonable for one group, over time was not for another.
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>> True.  I joined BBN after the TCP/IP flag day, after 4.2BSD, and so on.
>> When I used MH, it kept one message/file; I only know the control-a thing
>> from MMDF.
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> Rich, that was a much later version.
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FWIW: The big complaint about MH was not the mailbox format, it was that
Bruce stored your files in separate files, which on a small machine like a
PDP-11, eats up inode space, although it made doing things like grep and
finding something easy.

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