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==History== [[Jerry Pournelle]] wrote in 1986 of his wish for improvements to an [[offline reader]] for the [[Byte Information Exchange]] online service: "What I really need, though, is a program that will ... sort through the messages, assigning some to a priority file and others to the bit bucket depending on subject matter and origin".<ref name="pournelle198603">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1986-03/1986_03_BYTE_11-03_Homebound_Computing#page/n281/mode/2up | title=All Sorts of Software | work=BYTE | date=March 1986 | access-date=27 August 2015 | author=Pournelle, Jerry | pages=269}}</ref>
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