Subj : Telegram for fidonet purposes To : Wilfred van Velzen From : August Abolins Date : Tue Aug 11 2020 10:26 pm Hello Wilfred! ** On Tuesday 11.08.20 - 09:22, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins: AA>> Ah.. yes, with the service from FreePhonNum and ReceiveSMS.. Those AA>> two above just blow my mind. They're kinda like echomail for sms. AA>> . The sms texts are totally public! Anyone can read the sms AA>> texts. WvV> And I don't think you need a phone for google voice either... True. It's a total pc/webbased solution. Is google voice available in your country? It seems to be only available in the USA. But it must have been free to all at one time since it looks like I used it a long time ago when it was first announced; a couple phone numbers are present in the history logs. Yahoo had a similar thing, but with it you could only call and leave a recording. That option seemed amazing at the time when cell phones and plans and contracts were very expensive. Years ago, I used a service called iConnect. It was a VoIP type of thing using your computer with their desktop program. There were no ongoing monthly costs. I could bank a few dollars, and they would only be used up only when you made a call. It was handy when I was travelling more at the time. WvV> In my firefox I use Ghostery, Privacy Badger, and especially against WvV> adds: uBlock Origin. AdBlocker ultimate seems to be doing a smashing job on my XP pc. NoScript seems to be all I need on my Win7 pc. WvV> I hardly see any commercial content that way. Even the adds "in" youtube WvV> video's are gone... I gave up on watching YT directly online primarily because of the injected commercials. Good to hear that the commercials disappear with your combination of ad-blocker plugins. Instead, I download the file, store it in a USB stick and watch it a home later. BTW, Stas has indicated that he has hooked up to this echo. Hopefully he'll jump in soon and expound on his Telegram/fidonet gateway. He explained a couple of things in netmail. I might write it up as a report and post some of it here. -- ../|ug --- OpenXP 5.0.45 * Origin: The future is not what it used to be. (2:221/1.58) .