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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KTelnet for 2.0
From:       Alex Zepeda <jazepeda () pacbell ! net>
Date:       2000-12-13 12:13:24
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On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:08:39AM +0100, Guillaume Laurent wrote:

> Which means you have to download and install them, while the telnet client 
> works out of the box. "out of the box" is the keyword here :-).

When was the last time you had to suffer through the Windows telnet
client?  It's awful, buggy, etc.  And some versions are exploitable
(buffer overflow) too.  It's just a bad idea, period.

- alex

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