Nick Hilliard writes: > Christian de Larrinaga wrote on 03/12/2020 11:13 >> there are times when having telnet to test a mail server / email address is helpful? >> >> Happy to have a better sweetie if you can suggest one > > netcat is probably better for this because it opens up a raw socket and > doesn't attempt to cook the transport layer, like telnet. Yes John Levine mentioned nc earlier. I do use it for some usecases but I find muscle memory takes over and telnet has a loooong history. I have been slowly reviewing and installing newer tools on my linux laptops over the year. But gaining a 10,000 metre view of the current options takes time. > > In any event, reclassifying a protocol as historic doesn't mean that the > tools will disappear. It just means that as a protocol is at an > evolutionary dead end. When one stops eating one's own dog food .... > > It's ok to admit this sort of thing and not see it as a bad thing. The > world moves on. > > The same applies to finger except more so. And identd (rfc1413), > chargen (rfc864), echo/udp (rfc862) and, honestly, cartloads of the > earlier rfcs. If there were a gigantic bonfire of a bunch of these, I > would be happy to supply the marshmallows. > > Nick sounds like a job to build the wiki for this. C -- Christian de Larrinaga
