Re: [LUG] Superfluity of Information

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Adrian Midgley wrote:
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| Telnet can be automated in various ways and no doubt many people
have done so.

telnet is becoming less and less useful for these things.

POP3 auth often require base 64 encoding and other manipulations
these days.

This is no doubt why all the decent email clients have a "detect
what server supports" for POP3 authentication these days.

There is a school of though that says keeping computer data in
easily human readable forms is generally a good thing, precisely
because it makes it easier for humans to troubleshoot problems, and
the benefits of binary representation for the machine is minimal.
Some of this school are no doubt found amongst those responsible for
XML. Whether this applies to POP3 passwords is an interesting topic
for discussion some time.
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