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- From: lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: BBS wars - a plea
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.221730.1866@lub001.lamar.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 22:17:30 +1700
- References: <thurlow.723922961@convex.convex.com> <1992Dec11.023518.24465@sol.UVic.CA> <Bz3qKF.EH7@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <Bz3qKF.EH7@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec11.023518.24465@sol.UVic.CA> ndenux@engr.UVic.CA writes:
- >
-
- > Telegard's a hack of WWIV. Anyone who uses it is indirectly supporting theft
- > of code. Even if Telegard is a good program, it should be avoided for
- > ethical reasons.
- >
-
- I even understand that there will be no future releases of Telegard from
- Martin Pollard? Also, there are several sources you can obtain the source code
- for Telegard 2.5 and greater. There is reportedly (hearsay cause I haven't
- actually saw it) that a later version contains a trojan and some local sysop
- who got greedy to get ahead of the other Telegard Sysops went and downloaded it
- from Rust and Eddies BBS (somewhere in Florida) and it did the wild thing.. on
- his drive.
-
- For a long time Telegard and TAGBBS ( a ligit - produced code and also a later
- re-write of WWIV) went at it head and toes. Seemed that most the kiddies in
- town ran Telegard as opposed to TAG or commercial software for some reason.
- I guess that might relate to "Hacker Wars". Ask Marty Pollard about the user
- who uploaded a "Logoff.Bat" file with a little documented feature of DSZ to
- his BBS directory and nearly did the wild thing on him! Since... That feature
- was fixed by using the DSZ 'Restrict' command, restricting uploaded files to
- the upload directory and not the path sent by the remote hook-up.
-
- When security counts, Telegard doesn't! Telegard anyone? His next software,
- which is scheduled to be Marty-Gard, well I never saw it.
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- My opinions only! lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu
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