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- From: ch_ind05@blurt.oswego.edu (Greg Fuller (SUNY Oswego, Oswego New York))
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: BBS wars - a plea
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.203202.955@blurt.oswego.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 01:32:02 GMT
- References: <thurlow.723922961@convex.convex.com> <1992Dec11.023518.24465@sol.UVic.CA> <Bz3qKF.EH7@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec17.221730.1866@lub001.lamar.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec17.221730.1866@lub001.lamar.edu>, lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu writes:
- > 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.
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- I heard that TeleGard is a hack of The Forum BBS, even if it is a hack, it is a
- VERY good program, with a lot of people running and supporting it.
-
- Greg Fuller
- ch_ind05@blurt.oswego.edu
-
- >>
- >
- > 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.
- > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > My opinions only! lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu
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