Subj : FTN to Telegram
To   : August Abolins
From : Stas Mishchenkov
Date : Sun Aug 16 2020 02:15 pm


  Hello August!

15 Aug 20 23:03, you wrote to me:

AA>>> How much use is the Telegram/echomail gate getting?

SM>> I don't quite understand what you mean.

AA> I meant, how much activity do you measure through the gateway?
About three hundred messages per day, excluding mine.

AA>>> How many participants are there?

SM>> About 120.

AA> I see 100 in fidonet.online now.  Are you including additional users
AA> in  the FidoNet(unofficial) group too?

AA> OR.. is it just the two groups that the user Fido2telebot is a member
AA> of?   I see Fido2telebot in the PVT.ZONA and fidonet.online groups.
fidonet.online, PVT.ZONA, FidoNet.unoficial
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AA>>> How many different echos are you processing?

SM>> There is three groups of Telegram available publicly, any
SM>> Telegram user can join. Several echoes is gated for my personal
SM>> use only.

AA> Would you be inclined to expand the concept to an english-speaking
AA> crowd?
Why not?
AA> I've seen some Fido2telebot posts.  I see that you maintain the full
AA> name  of the user coming in from the Fido side.  Are you able to
AA> maintain  threading with replies in the Telegram-to-Fido direction?
When a bot reads a message from a telegram, it still cannot know what @MSGID it will have in Fido. So replay tree can not be made for now.

SM>> Feel free to ask me.

AA> I've already started; see above. :)
You are welcome.

AA> Now that I am in Telegram and looking around, I see that it's not a
AA> bad  system at all.  The S)earch feature is awesome.
Try my Fidogle on 2:460/58. ;)

From : August Abolins                      2:221/1.58
To   : Fidogle                             2:460/58
Subj : %Help

AA>   The support for
AA> attaching  files and photos and having them actually in their own
AA> "albums" or section  for a discussion group is pretty good.

Some kind of this is in Fido too. Look at https://brorabbit.g0x.ru/uue/
AA> I think you already mentioned that when your gateway processes a
AA> Telegram  message that includes an image, the fido echo user sees a
AA> link for it from  your own server?
Yes.

Stas


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