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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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