Subj : Re: through the "???"
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Wed Dec 16 2020 12:05 pm
On 16 Dec 2020, Wilfred van Velzen said the following...
Wv> Hi August,
Wv>
Wv> On 2020-12-15 23:45:00, you wrote to Charles Pierson:
Wv>
Wv> CP>> Actually, the Telegram Groups are the BBS. the Bot is a
Wv> CP>> mailer/tosser that converts from Telegram-speak to Fido-
Wv> CP>> speak.
Wv>
Wv> AA> I see it that way too. The Telegram groups are merely a
Wv> AA> mirror of the same echos on Stas' BBS. .: the Telegram
Wv> AA> groups are as if participating on Stas' BBS albiet with a
Wv> AA> different reader/app unlike anything else currently available
Wv> AA> for fidonet users.
Wv>
Wv> The same could be said about newsgroups on a bbs. But they call that
Wv> "gating" too...
The difference being that with the Telegram BBS, the users and their messages
have a distinct node seperate from Stas's BBS.
You aren't creating an account on Stas's BBS. You are creating an account on
Telegram. Stas's BBS acts as a Hub or Feed for the Telegram BBS.