Re: Telnet and FTP to Historic

Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> Thu, 03 December 2020 01:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: Telnet and FTP to Historic
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
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Since when were IETF people operators that used debugging tools?

I end up using telnet daily to connect to route servers to debug what is going on. I don't care who is watching me as maybe they can fix the problem for me I am debugging. 

This thread is some comedy gold though.

Sent from my iCar

> On Dec 2, 2020, at 7:47 PM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
> I don't agree. If we assume the system developer is careless,
> then it's easier to recover from such a careless developer
> if they misused ssh than if they misused telnet I'd say.