Re: Telnet tool shutdown?

The first instance was few weeks ago.  I just tried to find the story so I 
could repeat it accurately.  I couldn't find it.  My memory tells me the 
article obliquely mentioned that Microsoft views telnet as an archaic tool 
and they've replaced it with a better product so telnet need no longer be 
supported.

The second instance was yesterday when a friend complained to me that 
their telnet application no longer worked.  In tracing it through they 
found that it worked fine with two other ISP's.  A phone call to the first 
ISP got the explanation that the ISP had shut off telnet as they'd been 
told it is too insecure and no one used it for legitimate purposes anymore 
anyway.


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"Peter Dow" <pcdow@yahoo.com>
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10/04/2000 02:56 PM
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Hi Booth,

Blind eye and deaf ears. Haven't heard a thing. What do you mean "shutting
down the telnet tool"? ISP's refusing port 23 connections? That would be a
serious problem since I use TN5250 to connect to my customers. What have 
you
heard? Or read? Or experienced?

Regards,

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax

P.S. I notice about a 3 hour time lag between when messages are posted and
when I receive them. I already mentioned it to David, but I was wondering 
if
anyone else has shorter lags.


From: <booth@martinvt.com>
> Even worse than all this energy and money being spent on some mystical
> naming schema is their apparently blind eye to what is happening with
> Microsoft.  Has anyone else had complaints or seen evidence of Microsoft
> shutting down the telnet tool?  I've seen at least two mentions of
> Internet Service Providers disabling telnet because it is too big a
> security exposure.  Further questions have been answered with "everybody
> uses Windows so no one needs telnet anymore."
>
> I've wondered why the Windows telnet program has always been so ugly and
> now I guess the answer is out. But, where will that leave TN5250?



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