Subj : FTN to Telegram
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Aug 09 2020 11:27 am

Hello Wilfred!

** On Sunday 02.08.20 - 18:18, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

AA>> Is it this one:

AA>>    http://pics.rsh.ru/img/telegram-fidonet-online_xq170w76.jpg

WvV> Yes.

[snip]

AA>> But maybe if fidonet or FTN can redefine itself and embrace the new
AA>> messaging technologies and build bridges or gateways to them, then
AA>> participating in fidonet can look different and provide doorways for
AA>> people who would rather not bother with ftelnet/telnet or direct
AA>> memberships on a bbs.

WvV> Then it wouldn't be fidonet, but just another group on those
WvV> messaging technologies...

Maybe we're biased because highspeed internet is ubiquitous for us. I
noticed that a couple of Stas' nodelist entries indicate dialup.  He's
trying to bridge the wider mobile user to the dialup user?  But, as a
consequence he has discovered a way to bring fidonet to a smartphone user
- which is what *was* being agonized about here.

Is Telegram the only techology that offers a free API/protocol/schema for
this sort of thing?

I lieu of waiting for the ideal programmer to take up the gauntlet of
reaching the smartphone crowd with a new API that can talk to BBSes, maybe
a Telegram gateway could work with the ready-made Telegram code.


 ../|ug

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