On 09/21/2018 10:39 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
I was using a UUCP relay at the start of the 1980s and early UNIX-on-a-PC and UUCP for DOC by the mid 1980s, SCO UIC on the PC by then.
Yep, but that was not smtp, which is what I thought we were talking about. Smtp came about to connect servers, so that users could send email to those on other systems. It was not used with client software, as it is now, along with pop or imap. This meant that smtp was being used in a manner not originally intended, that is client to server. IIRC, one of the first services on what became the Internet was email on the pre IP DARPANET. IIRC, they used special purpose minicomputer "IMP" switches to move the packets around. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org