[SLL] telnet localhost

[johnbaxterlists at mac.com]

On Feb 14, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Chuck Wolber wrote:

> Yeah, I looked into those just before I started using SSH. Seemed  
> weird to
> me to go to all of that trouble to secure a protocol like telnet. It's
> time to let telnet (and FTP) die a quiet death off on an ice flow
> somewhere.

Be careful what you wish for.  You're thinking of telnet, the way to  
get a shell connection on another machine.

But the protocol underlies a few little things like POP, IMAP, SMTP,  
HTTP, LDAP, etc etc (almost anything that works over TCP rather than  
UDP).  We really can't kill off that part.

   --John