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From: "Digital Man" 
Subject: NOTE
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  To: Carlos Navarro
  Re: NOTE
  By: Carlos Navarro to Digital Man on Sat May 04 2024 07:03 pm

 > I understand that the NOTE kludge shows the editor used for posting a
 > message.
 >
 > Why NOTE? (NOTEpad?)

I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure the use of that kludge pre-dates notepad.exe
in Windows existence.

 > Other than SBBS, is there any other software that generates it?

Yeah, I think I first saw that with QuikEdit, ICEedit, TIDE, etc.
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