Subj : [--- No BBS ---]
To   : Winston Smith
From : Steven Horn
Date : Wed Mar 26 2003 12:16 am

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.<domain>.
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 ([email protected])
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT
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