what about SMTP?

I thought of that ... you could put it in the list but I wouldn't unless you're talking cron. I mean when I started it was like mail bob@froggy.ucla.edu and bob would open up pine or emacs and not get any spam or have to do anything crazy and we'd have a conversation.

that modality is long dead. we still have email but it's not that same ... I however could take mirc from like 1995 and still use everything.