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

[aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net]

> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:58:18 -0500
> From: "Jon 'maddog' Hall" <maddog at li.org>

> > 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))))

(funcall (lambda (language)
	 (and (religionp language) (not (empirep language))
	      (format nil "%s was a religion, not an empire" language)))
	 'LISP)
=> "LISP was a religion, not an empire"