Word: telnet
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...messages and destructive executables that filled so many accounts were annoying. But SoBig never really did much more than frustrate most of us. The virus emails announced themselves far too obviously to be mistaken for anything else—SoBig’s biggest crime was pushing a few telnet accounts over quota...
...Teaching Telnet to the Non-Believers...
Webmail is slowly taking over Harvard’s campus, transforming “checking e-mail” into a tedious ordeal. Instead of learning the quick, bland and easy telnet, first-years got their e-mail address over the summer and, alas, have started using webmail right away, not knowing the joys of SecureCRT or Nifty Telnet...
...tragic extinction of so many of telnet’s tricks, from stalking people with the finger command, the fortune and weather options as well as the ubiquitous “ph.” Also facing nearly certain death is the antiquated—but amusing—telnet “talk,” which, despite instant messaging, has survived intact to annoy anyone who is logged in for too long and makes it easy to send obnoxious banners to those folks worth disturbing. Webmail, meanwhile, leaves no user trail—which might be safer...
...Harvard’s computer services have plotted a telnet-killing conspiracy, first stealing away access on any non-Harvard computer, then cutting e-mail quotas and now brainwashing first years to use a tedious and slow system that runs off an already overburdened Harvard server. Telnet may yet be saved—but only if those who have come to know and love the little unix system preach its values to non-believers and would-be stalkers...