In <20030306092035(_dot_)41a74910(_dot_)moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu>
Keith Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> writes:
No. When e-mail was introduced in the early days, it was based on
UUCP.
There were lots of early email systems, and I don't want to argue about which
one predates another. I was speaking of the ARPAnet/Internet context that
eventually created rfc822 and SMTP. This community did not start out using
UUCP; very few of them were even using UNIX.
There were pretty strict requirements before you could connect to the
early DARPA/ARPA/DARPA inter-network network. I agree that UUCP
wasn't the predecessor to the current internet STMP system, but
Hadmut's point that there was much tighter authentication in the past
seems to be valid.
-wayne
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