> Telnet is just a bad idea these days, ssh basically works the same
> and is not such a bad idea.

If you think ssh basically works the same as telnet, there really is
nothing more to discuss, since you are living in a drastically
different reality from the one I am.

Each supports a form of remote login, and that's about where the
similarities end.  The way one logs in is different, the additional
facilities provided beyond login are wildly different, there is a
*huge* difference in the computational load imposed (if the machines
are otherwise idle, taking a millisecond rather than a microsecond may
be no big deal, but if you're doing it a thousand times, it matters)...

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