[Ma-linux] SSH, telnet, and SMTP

David Lesher wb8foz at nrk.com
Wed Feb 14 13:15:14 EST 2007


What nobody is quite saying is:

	There really is only one communications command, telnet
	& everything is an option to it.

Now that's not really accurate, given cp, and far more, but...

There's telnet-we use to login, there's ssh which is
telnet securely, there's smtp, there's uucp etc....

All based on the Unix 101 motto of "Build a good tool, and use it
as many times, as many ways, as makes sense. Do NOT build one-use
tools if avoidable.."




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