Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc

[Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-tech-userlevel%mumble.net@localhost>]

> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:41:20 +0100
> From: Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>
> 
> > 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.