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From: Ted.Tang@f3.n121.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ted Tang)
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Subject: Opus BBS (was Re: BBS Software)
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Date: 20 Nov 88 17:17:09 GMT
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 JB>        By the way, do you know of any object-only BBS programs 
 JB>that are in the public domain?  I can't think of any. 
 
Opus CBCS is one.  Only object code is available and it is completely free. 
What makes this BBS software work, preventing backdoor paranoia, is that the 
author, Wynn Wagner III, has plastered his reputation on it. 
 
The other side of the coin is BBS software with source code.  I remember an 
RBBS backdoor that someone had installed and distributed because source code 
was available to work with. 
 
Then I have heard stories about unauthorized PC Board systems getting broken 
into by the authors because they have left a backdoor just for that purpose. 


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