Subj : FTN to Telegram
To : August Abolins
From : Stas Mishchenkov
Date : Thu Aug 13 2020 10:58 am
Hi, August!
09 ��� 20 10:37, August Abolins -> Wilfred van Velzen:
AA>>> I am curious to understand what "the Next FTN generation" means.
WvV>> You will have to ask him yourself. ;)
AA> I have! But it seems that we may have the wrong guy w.r.t the Telegram
AA> destination that used that slogan
In general, in the Russian-speaking part of Fido, this is rather a kind of good teasing on young programmers who are going to write a "new Fidonet", and not a slogan.
AA> Stay tuned. Stas has indicated interest to drop by and explain
AA> things.
I'll try. ;)
AA> It sounds like he has identified a need to link traditional Telegram
AA> users
AA> (mobile, and far from his local region) with dialup users to echos on his
AA> bbs.
Not "need". It's a hobby, not more.
AA> Some of the aspects of Telegram are intriguing: privacy within a
AA> group, unsending (deleting messages), voice chat, message search, msg
AA> tracing/threading, file sharing, end-to-end encryption, secret chats,
AA> ..to name a few.
AA> For "echomail" all the secret stuff is nullified, but bridging mobile
AA> users to bbs users seems to be the main purpose.
Not quite right, but something like this.
The choice in favor of Telegram was made because it provides a free opportunity to do all this.
