Subj : Re: through the "???"
To : Richard Miles
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Wed Dec 16 2020 02:30 pm
On 16 Dec 2020, Richard Miles said the following...
RM> CP> Wv> AA> I see it that way too. The Telegram groups are merely a
RM> CP> Wv> AA> mirror of the same echos on Stas' BBS. .: the Telegram
RM> CP> Wv> AA> groups are as if participating on Stas' BBS albiet with a
RM> CP> Wv> AA> different reader/app unlike anything else currently availabl
RM> CP> Wv> AA> for fidonet users.
RM> CP> Wv>
RM> CP> Wv> The same could be said about newsgroups on a bbs. But they call t
RM> CP> Wv> "gating" too...
RM> CP>
RM> CP> The difference being that with the Telegram BBS, the users and their
RM> messages
RM> CP> have a distinct node seperate from Stas's BBS.
RM> CP>
RM> CP> You aren't creating an account on Stas's BBS. You are creating an acc
RM> on
RM> CP> Telegram. Stas's BBS acts as a Hub or Feed for the Telegram BBS.
RM>
RM> Which would make Telegram the "client" that we are accessing Stas' feed
RM> from.
However you term it.
If/when Stas decides to release his bot to the public, there is the potential
for more of these systems to come into being.
