On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 07:46:07AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > telnet is extremely old and just because there is still widespread use of > telnet or the daemon, doesn't provide a valid reason to keep using it. these > trivial vulnerabilities keep popping up and if you still insist of using > telnet, you deserve getting pwned
I mostly let these messages through so far (rejecting only one, which had even less value), but as a moderator I declare end of sub-thread now. Further messages on "Who uses telnet anyway?" will be rejected by default, unless they truly add something new. Messages on actual security issues/fixes in telnet are still desirable. Alexander P.S. I first wrote the above in a confusing manner, not clarifying it's only end of sub-thread started by kf503bla, not the entire thread. Corrected now, and I'll only let this corrected message to oss-security.
