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|    Jas Hud to Nick Andre    |
|    Re: BBS'ing    |
|    03 Jun 22 20:17:12    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 10917.bbs_carn@1:103/705 27001dad       REPLY: 1:229/426 8A8C4EA2       PID: Synchronet 3.19b-Win32 master/a2a9dc027 Jan 2 2022 MSC 1928       TID: SBBSecho 3.15-Linux master/92bcd45eb Jun 1 2022 GCC 8.3.0       BBSID: VERT       CHRS: ASCII 1        To: Nick Andre        Re: Re: BBS'ing        By: Nick Andre to Andre Robitaille on Fri Jun 03 2022 06:12 pm               > On 03 Jun 22 13:51:13, Andre Robitaille said the following to Nick Andre:        >        > AR> NA> I never really saw any WWIV or even any Tag systems in my area,        > AR> NA> ever.        >        > AR> There were only a few boards in my small town, and mine was WWIV because        > AR> yo could buy the source. My friend had Hermes (WWIV mac clone), and I        > AR> was alwa jealous of the much better configuration system. But having        > AR> access to bette doors and WWIVNet gave me a huge advantage.        >        > I heard the source of WWIV was available, pretty sure thats what influenced        > Renegade and some others. Mark Hoffman I believe still runs Wwivnet? I        > helped him add the INTL kludge to Netmail.        >              telegard was one of many wwiv hacks and the developer's friend copied the tg       2.5g source and leaked it and that's how you got the early versions of       renegade.              this leak was a malicious act because the guy who stole it liked TAG and       wanted tg to end. what happenen is the code for tg just got better, and the       guy said that cott lang found a few backdoors in it which got removed.       --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 80/1 90/1 92/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 114/705       SEEN-BY: 120/340 123/120 131 129/305 330 331 153/250 757 7715 154/10       SEEN-BY: 218/700 840 220/70 221/1 6 226/17 30 100 227/114 229/110       SEEN-BY: 229/111 112 113 206 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664 700       SEEN-BY: 240/1120 250/5 8 266/512 267/800 280/464 282/1038 298/25       SEEN-BY: 301/1 113 305/3 317/3 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66 234       SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 770/1 4500/1 5020/1042       PATH: 103/705 301/1 221/6 218/840 770/1 317/3 229/426           |
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