Re: nntp telnet connection with remote command echoes

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Rod Whitby <list.ding@rwhitby.net> writes:

> try and send the mode character command (as the firewall telnet won't
> accept it - I presume the intent of changing the local escape
> character to ^X is to ensure that the "mode character" command goes to
> the gateway telnet program instead of the local telnet program).

Yes, that's the intention.

> When I connect to the remote system, all the NNTP commands are echoed
> (starting with MODE READER).

[...]

> Would the maintainers of nntp.el accept a patch that fixes this
> problem (the assumption being that I've written it such that it works
> the same as it does currently if the nntp-telnet-remote-echoes
> variable is nil) ?

If you think that this is something that will be useful for others,
then I think the patch should be applied.  However, if you're the only
one that will ever see this, er, odd version of telnetd, then I think
it probably shouldn't be applied.

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