On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 22:50 +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote: > Hi, > > telnet: > 1. terrible code, with many abstraction violations > 2. something people expect to talk to their legacy machines, which > nobody but them has access to. > 3. common use case is served by netcat, already in base. > 4. too much superfluous functionality. > > Let's pull it out as a package, the alternative being breaking > functionality for the four remaining users. > > send hate mail my way. To be honest, I don't think you can pull this. Not because telnet is necessary but because Windows-origin users are used to think of telnet as netcat, and rarely realizing all the dragons hidden there. Changing your habits is hard. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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