Subj : Re: through the "???"
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Dec 17 2020 10:45 am

Hi August,

On 2020-12-16 19:12:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> I still think that naming it gating covers it better
 WvV>> than calling it a telgram BBS. ;)

 AA> Then you can say that converting JAM/Squish/MSG bases is
 AA> "gating" to FTN.

 AA> In this case, the messages on Telegram servers is in Telegram
 AA> format. The public API allows Stas to build a tosser/scanner
 AA> that understands that format.  That's not much different than
 AA> a sysop using whatever tosser/scanner that can work with Jam/
 AA> Squish/MSG.

 AA> Meanwhile, we use the Telegram app as a client that is not
 AA> much different than using an nntp, telnet, or ssh client.

You can twist it anyway you want. ;)

But in the end it basically still is exchanging messages between two different networks, and that is called gating.

The ("wildly") different properties of the networks and clients involded don't matter for this... IMHO.

Bye, Wilfred.

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