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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 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.
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> My opinions only!          lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu
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