Re: privacy is a feature (Re: [Asrg] desirable characteristics of source tracking)

[wayne <wayne@midwestcs.com>]

In <20030306092035.41a74910.moore@cs.utk.edu> Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.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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