[Dolalin]

I have only negative evidence so far to offer. I can't find any mentions of the "Attacking soandoso, master" message before mid 2002.

I did find this newsgroup post commenting on the patch that did the /pet attack range fix:

5/8/02

> - Pets will once again tell you who they are attacking by sending its
> master a /tell

Again? I don't remember them doing that...

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....c/XCOiFA0tlJwJ

I will keep looking.