Winston Smith (1:323/120) wrote to Steven Horn at 03:33 on 24 Mar 2003:

 WS>      Hmm...  for a Web server it might be possible to use something
 WS> like      http://host.network.domain  (?)  Anybody with Internet
 WS> connectivity will know what an 'http://' URL means....  Any browser
 WS> would reject an attempted telnet....  And if the user doesn't have
 WS> Internet connectivity?  well...  then he or she can't telnet to the
 WS> address anyway, so it doesn't matter! (?)  Any user then trying to
 WS> telnet to the address knows that he or she is merely guessing that
 WS> there is a telnet service port as well, because usually, if all
 WS> services are supported, the poster lists the address without a
 WS> single particular URL prefix.... (?)

By the same token, any telnet system could list itself as
"telnet.. Users would be aware of what they are dealing
with and would know where to go.  Your assumption that a system which does
not have a URL prefix is one which is not supported.
 
Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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