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