I guess this is like telling people crammed into a cubicle farm office that air conditioning is bad, and then being banned by an air-conditioner-repair-person. The fact that they’re chained to an office with stale, mouldy air implies more than one thing has gone wrong.

Hmmmm does echo do the CRLF? I thought I normally printf "~tomasino/phlog\r\n" | nc tilde.institute 70 which I guess should actually be printf "%s/%s\r\n" "~tomasino" "phlog" | nc tilde.institute 70

my name is screwtape right