>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> writes:
    >> My, what a bunch of parvenus.  SIP got it from SMTP, SMTP got it from
    >> Telnet.  Back in the 1960s we all used <CR><LF> because on a
    >> mechanical model 33 or 35 Teletype, CR really returned the carriage,
    >> LF really advanced the platen, and you needed both.  I first ran into
    >> CR/LF on a PDP-6 in about 1968, but I know it wasn't new then.

    Tony> Dates back to 1930s teleprinters, I think.

Since they were "tele"-printers, it seems obvious why *SIP* must retain
it for "tele"-phony :-) 



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