Subj : FTN to Telegram
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Aug 09 2020 10:37 am

Hello Wilfred!

** On Friday 07.08.20 - 08:27, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> I am curious to understand what "the Next FTN generation" means.

 WvV> You will have to ask him yourself. ;)

I have! But it seems that we may have the wrong guy w.r.t the Telegram  
destination that used that slogan

Stay tuned.  Stas has indicated interest to drop by and explain things.

It sounds like he has identified a need to link traditional Telegram users  
(mobile, and far from his local region) with dialup users to echos on his  
bbs.

It doesn't sound too far from the smartphone user-base scenario that has  
been discussed here.  Telegram already provides the API and the iOS/ 
Android apps, and Stas has learned to leverage it to work with echomail.


 AA>> There's another fidonet presence here:  https://telegram.me/fidonet
 AA>> ....with a grand total of 21 members.

 WvV> It's seems to be occupied by a subset of (mostly) Russians, that are
 WvV> also in the https://t.me/fidonet_online Telegram group. Language is also
 WvV> Russian, but it seems to be less active than the other group...

Some of the aspects of Telegram are intriguing: privacy within a group,  
unsending (deleting messages), voice chat, message search, msg tracing/ 
threading, file sharing, end-to-end encryption, secret chats,  ..to name a  
few.

For "echomail" all the secret stuff is nullified, but bridging mobile  
users to bbs users seems to be the main purpose.


  ../|ug

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