> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:41:20 +0100 > From: Edgar Fuß <e...@math.uni-bonn.de> > > > send hate mail my way. > I guess you are over-looking my (and probably a lot of other network > administrator's) primary use case for /usr/bin/telnet: connect to a > HTTP/SMTP/IMAP/whatever port and speak the protocol.
That's what we have /usr/bin/nc for. No need for the unmaintained complexity of a telnet stack with an '80s network security engineering mindset to do that.
