Re: deleting telnet/telnetd

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2018, David Holland wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 12:32:08PM -0800, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> > I don't understand your position. Let me explain why.
> >
> > You're saying, "Write a new one, and it's going to be close to
> > impossible," at the same time you're saying, "Delete this one."
> >
> > If it's impossible, and we need one, we'll need to keep the old one no
> > matter how bad it is, right? And if you can't fix it after all the
> > experience you have with it, how am I going to be able to fix it?
>
> I don't really follow. It's not impossible. It's just not trivial.
>
> Keeping the old one has been the answer for the past twenty-odd
> years. But it can't be fixed and sooner or later someone's going to
> find a critical problem with it.
>
> The reason it came up this week is that someone found and posted a
> couple noncritical problems in one of the other forks of it.
>
> The hope, I think, was that the conclusion would be that we don't
> really need one.

Top post, bottom post, whatever.

Telnet is used every day and most of the use cases can use nc.

I wish you'd get rid of it because that would mean I can resign and
delete NetBSD and get rid of a lot of old hardware.

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