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Re: LUGNet Chat
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 9 Oct 1998 22:31:30 GMT
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mattdm@STOPSPAMMERSmattdm.org
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Perhaps a Princess.... <sarah@eskimo.com> wrote:
> Nope. i already have access to tf on my ISP and I suspect that Eskimo
> is not the only ISP that has this loaded for everyone who wants to.
I dunno. Many (most?) ISPs these days don't even give out shell accounts,
let alone being cool enough to install useful programs....
> No. This makes talkers nicer. It is NOT necessary. Necessary is
> something that access the telnet protocol -- a program which comes
> with Win95, I know. Don't know about mac. Unix has it by default, I
> believe.
:) Yes, of course Unix has it by default.
The telnet client that comes with Win95 is utter crap -- anyone wanting to
do anything serious really ought to get something better, like NetTerm.
(Or SecureCRT, which is great because it also does SSH, which is encrypted.)
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) In Your Opinion IMO, WIn95's telnet does EVERYTHING I need it to. It is better than most, in fact. It has copy+paste capability, and logging. :) I don't know what more is needed. (I've never sent anything over telnet that needs encryption. If (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Not necessarily. I played on SouCon MUSH and PernMUSH for MONTHS using telnet only. (It was at least a year before I had access to tf) Sure, now that I have tf I would be hard-pressed to go back to plain telnet. But it CAN be done. ANd it is (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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