ctrl-c kills local telnet instead of current remote process

[mgi@vt.edu]

Using telnet, I noticed that ctrl-c kills the local telnet process,
instead of the current process on the remote machine. The manpages
provide a lot of information, but I do not understand a word.

Is there a way to configure telnet to pass ctrl-c to the remote host
instead of terminating itself?

Matthias