[wplug] telnet for email

[John Harrold]

Sometime in June Mike Griffin assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Every computer that has tcp/ip installed has a telnet client. This 
| doesn't hold true with secure shell clients.
| If you're at a library, for instance, you can't dl something onto the 
| computer but telnet is available for use.
| 
| Mike

well you can setup a webserver with ssl and get one of those java ssh
clients to run in a browser... i did this a while back and it worked pretty
well. really though, of the libraries i've been in, the computers were
either locked down so tightly that access was forbidden to telnet or so
poorly that i could download putty. 

plus it's simply not true that "Every computer that has tcp/ip installed
has a telnet client." while you might be saying that a telnet client exists,
that doesn't necessarly mean it's installed. while it might be true to say
that "many" computers fitting that condition have a telent client
installed, i've certainly found some that do not.

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