Subj : Telegram for fidonet purposes
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Aug 10 2020 08:59 am
Hello Wilfred!
** On Monday 10.08.20 - 13:51, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:
AA>> [3] Each account is tied to the phone number for the user. That might
AA>> be fine for the user (analogous to a BBS user or a point), but inorder
AA>> to work, the BBS sysop would have to sacrifice their phone's Telegram
AA>> account to identify as the gateway-ID.
WvV> That's not strictly true! You only need a phonenumber for the account
WvV> verification process. Once you have created the Telegram account you
WvV> don't need it anymore:
WvV>
https://social.techjunkie.com/use-telegram-without-phone-number/
Thank you for posting that.
It is cool to be reminded about alternative ways to get a temporary phone
number forwarded to one's "real" cellphone. I heard of some of them some
time ago. I may even employ one of the methods to minimize exposing my
real cell number for general use.
But the title of the article is misleading. You ultimately still need a
real cellphone to forward the temporary one since the verification process
is via text. A plain landline phone nummber isn't going to work.
It is good to know that my assumption about sacrificing a cellphone for a
dedicated gate with Telegram is wrong.
(BTW.. the site is a horrible advertising mess with a constant feed of ads
refreshing + animations + popups, and wasting my data, and ads placed
within the body of the text every new page-down. The main article of the
text was loaded but data continued to stream up to 6MB within 2 minutes
while reading the article, and no signs of slowing down before I cut it
off.)
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