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- From: rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: BBS wars - a plea
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.150033.20719@apgea.army.mil>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:00:33 GMT
- References: <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.
- >>
- >
- >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
-
-
- Well, Martin Polland is suppost to do a bug release soon. and Marty-Gard end
- up being Telegard 2.7.
- I run "telegard" but I have the source. I've been taking out the back doors
- like logoff.bat and so forth. I have no interest in releasing my modded
- telegard code like Cott Lang has with his Renegade. I just feel SO much
- secure with my modded copy. =)
- Rob Merritt,
-
- My opinions are mine alone.
-
-
- D
- Well, Marta
-