[ih] Fwd: Design choices in SMTP

[Dave Crocker]

On 2/8/2023 2:54 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> [.]Local mail and SNDMSG
> programs have been modified at many sites to include network mailing
> (e.g., USER at HOST at BBN_TENEX and MAIL host user at MIT-DMCG).
>
> And this does not sound to me as if it would have been wishful
> thinking, but rather that it was actively being used?

I take that portion of his text as a pretty clear indication that FTP 
for email exchange had meaningful traction by that time.

d/

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