Subj : FTN to Telegram
To : Stas Mishchenkov
From : August Abolins
Date : Sat Aug 15 2020 11:03 pm
Hello Stas!
** On Friday 14.08.20 - 11:04, Stas Mishchenkov wrote to August Abolins:
AA>> How much use is the Telegram/echomail gate getting?
SM> I don't quite understand what you mean.
I meant, how much activity do you measure through the gateway?
AA>> How many participants are there?
SM> About 120.
I see 100 in fidonet.online now. Are you including additional users in
the FidoNet(unofficial) group too?
OR.. is it just the two groups that the user Fido2telebot is a member of?
I see Fido2telebot in the PVT.ZONA and fidonet.online groups.
AA>> How many different echos are you processing?
SM> There is three groups of Telegram available publicly, any Telegram user
SM> can join. Several echoes is gated for my personal use only.
Would you be inclined to expand the concept to an english-speaking crowd?
I've seen some Fido2telebot posts. I see that you maintain the full name
of the user coming in from the Fido side. Are you able to maintain
threading with replies in the Telegram-to-Fido direction?
AA>> I'm pressed that you are also servicing movement of files.
SM> May be "impressed"? ;)
You are absolutely correct. My fingers raced ahead of me and I didn't
notice the error until the message was done.
AA>> With the URLs to the Fido part, does the user pull the file off a
AA>> Telegram server?
SM> No. I hold files on my own server.
AA>> I have many other questions, but I'll try to control myself - I
AA>> promise.
SM> Feel free to ask me.
I've already started; see above. :)
Now that I am in Telegram and looking around, I see that it's not a bad
system at all. The S)earch feature is awesome. The support for attaching
files and photos and having them actually in their own "albums" or section
for a discussion group is pretty good. A right-click on an image provides
an option to go to the message that it was posted with - or people can
view the images on their own. Same thing with audio and video files!
I think you already mentioned that when your gateway processes a Telegram
message that includes an image, the fido echo user sees a link for it from
your own server?
I like Telegrams "Members" list view. Unlike traditional FTN where you
cannot see lurkers, with Telegram you know who's a member of a message
group - which makes finding someone handy.
Message and member control is amazing. Re-editing a posted message is
very nice.
More thoughts and questions later.
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