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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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If you listen carefully, you'll hear the voices of Racket, Guile, Fennel, and Lisp users across the galaxy crying out at once.
What distro are you using that has telnet installed upon boot? I can't name names because I haven't been tracking the data but it seems like I'm having to install telnet myself these days, and OpenSSL comes installed by default.
That said, your use-case is exactly the kind of scenario I had in mind when I wrote that telnet does still have its uses. If you're not dealing with an encrypted protocol, then telnet is great to have.