Re: Telnet and FTP to Historic

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Thu, 03 December 2020 11:39 UTC

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Christian de Larrinaga wrote:

> there are times when having telnet to test a mail server / email
> address is helpful?

Yup. In that sense, all the ASCII based protocols are
telnet servers.

Actually, when I teach ASCII based protocols (ftp, http, etc.)
to students, I let them use telnet clients to access servers
manually.

					Masataka Ohta