Fully agree with what you wrote. Even mindterm does not make ssh available
for everyone, as not every station has ajava-enabled browser.

On 18 Jan 2002, Bill Kenworthy wrote:

> I have also never figured out
> why all the evangelistic hooha over telnet when ftp and I think pop3 and
> imap essentially do the same thing - though this is starting to change.
>

Imap is a bit less bad. I think that your password is not given in easy
plain text on the beginning of the session. I think it is obfuscated a bit
or something.

You won't catch any of the anti-telnet guys using plain pop3 or
(non-annonymous) ftp. To replace ftp you have scp and sftp. pop3 and imap
can be carried over SSL. Imap can also use a chalange-response
authenticcation.

>
> For those of you using pop3 or imap to collect your mail from a remote
> server, fire up ethereal and have the delight of watching your password
> go out in plain text every fewminutes or so, as well as personal email
> coming back in plain ...

Same goes for icq, and I suspect that for some other instant-messangers.

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