Actually the only site I could find until here was the martech site from the old version of the game that is no longer active, and the only phone number was a Kansas City phone number.  so why don't you try to find out the whole story before you judge somebody.

Email John jpritch@eisonline.com

okay I downloaded the new version of TWGS and bought a twgs lite registration code from john.  When I copy/paste the codes it tells me that the tw lite is now registered but I can't use any of the sysop editors.  I wanted to make my game a closed game but it will not allow me to change it, the editors still say the game is unregistered.  In the editors it comes up and tw 2002 and I registered twgs, don't know if this will make a difference or not.  Also someone wrote (somewhere, I have been searching for an answer) that the BBS name must be exactly the same as the original order form.  I went back to the order form and noticed that I put "None" on the bbs (since this is not going to actually be a bbs, but a private family thing).  I tried to key in None as the bbs name but this still didn't work... Does anyone have any idea how to get the codes to work? 

the interesting is the codes are accepted in the CONFIGURATIONS screen but in the game itself (it still says tradewars 2002) it still says that it is unregistered and will not allow me to edit bigbang, use the stardock, etc.
In the game it lists my twlite codes in the tradewars gold registration box but still leaves the tw3 registration box empty and will not accept them.
I am thinking about returning to a previous version and seeing if that will help.