History of putting square brackets around subject of forwarded email (fwd)

Jon 'maddog' Hall maddog at li.org
Fri Feb 2 13:58:18 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 13:45 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> In the early days of email, only the Emperors had the resources to 
> be able to afford manual labor needed to remove the husks from rice to 
> make it white, and to pay for the brackets for forwarded email. After some 
> time, a process was developed to cheaply remove the husks from the rice 
> and to add inexpensive brackets to forwarded messages. The irony is that 
> the most nutrition was in the husk component of the rice, but the brackets 
> used today are just as high in nutritional value as the old expensive 
> brackets used by the Emperors of ancient times.
> 
And I (always thought (it came (from  (LISP))))

md



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