Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!A.ISI.EDU!CERF From: CERF@A.ISI.EDU Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Batch Processing -- via SMTP... Message-ID: <[A.ISI.EDU]24-Sep-88.10:45:28.CERF> Date: 24 Sep 88 14:45:00 GMT References: <39965@linus.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 6 The big problem with batch via SMTP is authenticating that the sender has privileges to use the target resources - one presumably doesn't like to leave passwords en clair in SMTP traffic. Vint