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