Re: OK, I give up. What is telnet?

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:21:17 -0500, "Jason Whorton" <jason@microxl.com>
wrote:

>Hi.  Can anyone explain what Telnet is?  I am not an old school on-line guy,
>so I am not familiar with what it is and how it can help me use my IIgs and
>IIe.  Any help would be appreciated.

Telnet on the internet is like doing a dial-up to a local BBS.  It is
a way to allow you to log on to another machine using text access.

On the IIgs, telnet allows you to connect to a paid Delphi account
($35 US/year for a telnet account) or to connect to lost-gonzo.com
which has two Apple II BBS' as doors off the main PC BBS.  There are a
fair number of BBS' that you can telnet to on the internet.  My users
group is trying to get their First Class BBS set up on a permanent
connection to the internet so that users can log in using telnet, the
First Class client or a web browser.

If you know what you are doing you can also use telnet to log into a
SMTP, POP3 or FTP server to send mail, read mail or transfer files
respectively.

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