Re: Trimming priority:standard
]] Russ Allbery
> Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> writes:
>
> > Personally, I use telnet pretty routinely. Generally when I'm acting as
> > a human pretending to be an MTA for troubleshooting purposes. I would
> > find it pretty surprising to find it absent.
>
> Try nc. It works pretty well. :)
Telnet has the nice feature of telling you what's happening (trying to
connect, connected, etc), something nc needs -v to do. Purely a
convenience/finger macro problem of course, but I suspect telnet's being
used because people have typed it for the better part of 20 or 30
years.
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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
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