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Date:      Thu, 5 Mar 2015 17:38:48 +0300
From:      Dmitry Sivachenko <demon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r279603 - in head: bin/rcp usr.bin/rlogin usr.bin/rsh
Message-ID:  <D3F429BC-AD81-4881-AC10-26746DB41B7E@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <AEB33C6A-8824-4345-81E1-95280AB20CFA@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 5 =D0=BC=D0=B0=D1=80=D1=82=D0=B0 2015 =D0=B3., at 17:09, David =
Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> On 5 Mar 2015, at 14:04, Dmitry Sivachenko <demon@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
>> It is so nice to have most useful stuff out of the box.
>=20
> The question is whether a tool for logging into remote machines =
without encryption is 'the most useful stuff'.  The tool is also =
[ab]used for network testing, but we already provide a better tool for =
that in the form of nc(1).
>=20


Well.  Speaking of telnet, it does provide encryption AFAIK.

Speaking of what is "better" and what is not, there is such a thing like =
"habit".  If it does not require much effort to maintain it, better =
leave it as is.
I personally often use telnet to connect to TCP-based services to test =
things, I need no encryption at all and I see no reason to switch to =
another tool (even if it is "better" in some sense).




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