Subj : Re: Alternative Win32 Telnet Client?
To   : Nick Andre
From : Shurato
Date : Thu Jan 11 2024 14:18:00

 NA> On 10 Jan 24  19:55:00, Shurato said the following to Jas Hud:

 NA>S> I don't, I want to for my users who are paranoid and want to use ssh
 NA> instead
 NA>S> of telnet.  Everything I do is for users I don't have, not me.  I'd
 NA> just lik
 NA>S> to be able to do this from windows and get rid of my linux vm.

 NA> In 25 years of offering telnet access I've never had one that ever wanted
 NA> SSH.

 NA> I really don't understand the fascination of any Sysop that wants to offer
 NA> that. All of the convoluted Rube Goldberg in-betweenisms needed for a type
 NA> of user that simply does not exist. Note that I said user... because what
 NA> I do understand is the topic began on Fsx which itself is a Net
 NA> almost entirely comprised of insufferable Linux Sysops. Not users...
 NA> Sysops.

 NA> When the idea was challenged on the merit the rebuttal was tech. Because
 NA> Linux. Because we can, we must... offering something really only
 NA> understood by another insufferable Linux Sysop. These are people
 NA> who I guarantee they have never ran a board before, never had
 NA> thousands of users or multiline systems in the 90's. But they're
 NA> here now, they're Linux, and they know it all.

 NA> No user calling a board prefers or even tries connecting via SSH. Only the
 NA> insufferable Linux Sysop prefers this. And no, they are not paranoid
 NA> users. Far from it... That "user" has a level of expectation
 NA> and mannerism an average caller does not have.

 NA> I wouldn't want such a user on my board anyway as right off the bat he
 NA> feels  a sense of techno-entitlement. Not ever realising that I could
 NA> be watching at the console. So much for the "security" for
 NA> mister-paranoid who probably would call once and vanish anyway.
 NA> Who wants that?

  Honestly  I have very little in my life other than my BBS.  It gives me
something to do, when otherwise I would have nothing.  Even for users I don't
have, I would go that extra mile.  Like adding email or a web interface or my
own proxy (when the ftelnet proxy wouldn't work).  It gives me something to
do, even though it's not for me.

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