RE: Blast from the past

[Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>]

At 01:59 PM 1/27/2001 -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
> "spooling" or "mail store" mail-receiving processes came later --
> in the Multics case, not much later, as it became clear that
> direct-to-user-space delivery raised some security issues that no
> one was happy about-- but well before SMTP.

Hmmm.  It occurs to me that what you have highlighted is another Internet 
demonstration that scaling imposes more stringent demands.

However this was perhaps one of the earliest examples of social effects -- 
larger communities have less average trustworthiness? -- than technical ones.

d/