Rather than sneer at my naievety I'd appreciate it and I am sure others would if you'd explain as if to a four year old why Telnet can't be used. As for your other comments, there's an old arab proverb that goes like this:

He that does not know and does not know that he does not know is a fool, shun him.

He that does not know but knows that he does not know can learn, teach him.

There are two more combinations of this, but I fall into the second, not the first category in this regard. My nickname alone proves it. In one role three years ago I had to do a month's training in mobile phone networks and was paid top freelance rates during that month. So some people must believe in my ability to learn, even if you don't.

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