You're right Sunderfury, there seems to have been a stealth change at some point in Kunark perhaps to alleviate or remove this limit?
From the thread:
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Pre-kunark.. getting more as 3 pets on a mob was hard.. because verant had 'fix' a bug which would allow only 3 pets on a mob. (this was done for players, only 3 mobs would agro the player now, with pulling.. that was the idea behind it)
After kunark, it is no problem at all getting 4 or 5 pets on a mob.. just arder pet to attack and it's on it.
Myself i play VERY often with necrogroups (4+ necros in a group).
Being on raid.. well besides we are mana-bateries, we can throw in a dot once or twice, but our main damage is our pet.. he does very good damage.
http://web.archive.org/web/200101231...ML/000930.html
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So I'll climb down from my soapbox on this one and admit I am probably wrong on the "whole timeline" bit.
Nevertheless I think there's a strong case for vanilla era. All the quotes I posted are from vanilla or very early Kunark, and this one corroborates them.