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Originally Posted by Matth
Telnet dates back to the days of the "dumb terminal" - it is also used by propellorheads to issue commands to other types of server, and read the response - telnetting a news server, to see if it responds, is one example, though it's hard to do much useful.
Telnetting an email server is pretty desperate, you can get some nice small email clients.
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One of the tricks I learnt on my Exchange 5.5 course was how to telnet into the smtp port on a mail server, login and send a simple email 'From' anyone you wanted. Loophole obviously filled ages ago, but was fun at the time.
I use telnet almost every day to login to our Unix hosts, mainly WRQ Reflections client software.