The Late Jon Postel Known As The God Of The Internet Coauthored singapore email list 1.6 million contact leads Rfc 772 The Precursor To Smtp With Suzanne Sluizer In 1980 Postel Would Later Publish Rfc 788 For Smtp As A Way To Replace File Transfer Protocol Ftp For Delivering Emailsof Course Smtp Has Issues Namely Security And A Way To Verify The Identity Of A Sender In The Early 80s Relatively Few Computers Were Connected To The Early Internet The People Using Them Knew Each Other And Trusted Other Users

Suzanne Sluizer Explained This To Cnet In 2004 And Actually Suggested A New Protocol Was Neededback In The Time We Were Doing This Work We Were Talking About Hundreds Or Maybe Thousands Of Sites On What Was Then Called The Arpanet It Was A Trusted Situation And The Protocols Were Developed On The Basis Of That Trust So Its Very Surprising To Me That We Are Using The Same Protocols Coming Up On 25 Years Later Because You Need Different Things In A Commercial Environment Than You Need In A Research Environment