In message <BFA7656A.4D1E%wduke@cogeco.ca>, William Duke writes:
>Ugh - why not?
>
>I know that you'll have to use the serial port to initially configure your
>headless box, but why continue to use serial when ethernet is so much faster
>and so much more versatile?
>
>Granted, you're not gonna want to login as root over telnet, but you
>shouldn't be using a root account anyway.
>
>So, why should people not use telnet?

Cleartext passwords make baby Jesus cry.

-s