-=> Quoting JEAN PARROT to VIKTOR PILPENOK <=-

 VP> _Telnet_ is a protocol, not a name of a program, no matter what
 VP> program you use, you still use _telnet_.

 JP> What I meant, Viktor, was that my understanding of this was that it
 JP> looked like a PRG to me. I used to type TELNET and it would go to it.
 JP> Now I type Zoc.exe and it gives me telnet as you mentioned. Mute
 JP> point! 

Actually,, that's "moot point".

And it's far from moot. Confusing a program (a telnet *client* in this
case) named telnet with the telnet protocol it uses is actually
moderately serious. 

That sort of confiusion makes folks ee incompatabilities where there
aren't any. And think that bugs in a bug (failures to adhere to a
protocol) aren't problems because the program works with other copies
of itself, even though it on't work correctly with programs that
implement the protocol correctly. 

MS takes shameless advantage of that last with both IE & OE.


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