SNDMSG-over-ftp pre-dates UUCP by 5 years, so I think that one's pretty clear-cut. (Not that I'm claiming anything's original here, ftp & smtp are both in the

SNDMSG-over-ftp pre-dates UUCP by 5 years, so I think that one's pretty clear-cut. (Not that I'm claiming anything's original here, ftp & smtp are both in the nwg/ietf family tree, which makes it easy to draw parallels. There's probably 100 other influences.)