SMTP, PINE, and security

Greg Broiles writes:

I dunno; if things change such that it's considered normal for users to connect to local or outside SMTP and NNTP ports, that would seem to create

This assumes that the gateways at one's sites will pass stuff on these ports from non-authorized hosts. True, one could go to different ports on a relay box, but that's a bit more complicated than what the 'average user' is willing to put up with.