On 13.12.2018 23:50, 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. > > send hate mail my way. >
I'm against. telnet is useful for networking. It's used in embedded, virtualization (qemu, simh, ...) and some public services.
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