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[COLD] Implementing telnet

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mon Dec 2 18:30:56 1996 )

Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 15:26:55 -0800
To: coldstuff@cold.org
From: Jeff Kesselman <jeffk@ten.net>

P.S.

Do NOT implement EITHER a telnet server OR client UNLESS you are committed
to a FULL telnet protocol implementation.  There are far too many things
out there already that CALL themselves telnet that do NOT talk real telnet
protocol.
(Like, 95% of all Win95 "telnet" programs.)

(Kin you tell I been through this frustration?  This is what killed my
first cold windowing project.)

Jeff Kesselman