Now that I have ssh working, I thought I would just shut down port 23
entirely.  There is one machine, however, that I used to run a public
service on.  I'd like to continue to issue a message about the status
of that service, which was available by telnet.  Presently people
login, get a message telling them what's going on, and then are kicked
off.  Idealy, rather than offer a login at all, just a message would
be transmitted to their telnet client.

Is there any _secure_ tool available that would work like that?  TIA

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henry nelson