[Python-3000] PEP 3108: Standard Library Reorganization

[Nick Coghlan]

Brett Cannon wrote:
> * telnetlib
>     + Telnet is not used very much anymore.
>         - Telnet is unsafe.
>         - Most people use SSH instead.

SSH may be common in the PC/server world, but it's still much easier 
(and less demanding on the host's resources) to embed a telnet server 
rather than an SSH one.

Embedded HTTP servers seem to be slowly taking over this role (where 
SNMP hasn't already done so), but telnet-based equipment remote control 
interfaces are certainly still quite common.

Cheers,
Nick.

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