On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 10:50:30PM +0000, co...@sdf.org wrote: > Hi, > > telnet: > 1. terrible code, with many abstraction violations > 2. something people expect to talk to their legacy machines, which > nobody but them has access to. > 3. common use case is served by netcat, already in base. > 4. too much superfluous functionality. > > Let's pull it out as a package, the alternative being breaking > functionality for the four remaining users.
Actually, lots of mananged network equipements (or remote management boards) can talk telnet. It still has its use. -- Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --