From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!linus!sch
Newsgroups: net.mail
Title: Is a mail protocol really necessary.
Article-I.D.: linus.10043
Posted: Sat Feb 12 22:32:41 1983
Received: Tue Feb 15 04:51:24 1983

I wonder, is it really all that bad having mail be
run as a side effect.  Mark could not have implemented news
so easily if uux wasn't around.  The problem I see is that the
mail program can't authenticate remoter users/sites.
		Just Wondering,
		S. Hemminger