Subj : Telegram users soon?
To   : Charles Pierson
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Nov 01 2020 00:45:01

Hey Charles!

 CP> For the various issues that the two point programs that I have
 CP> found for Android,  it is a good way to connect to Fidonet and
 CP> other FTN style networks.

Agreed.  All that is really needed is a text editor for creating posts and/or replies and (un)packer to deal with raw pkt's.  Something along the line of an offline reader except it would use the FTN formatting to keep it perfectly in sync with ftn practices.

 CP> If I am understanding correctly, that set up could act like a
 CP> server to connect to with a mobile device to connect to Fidonet?

Not like a server but instead an actual real server.  At the moment they both are used by local devices to connect with the internet without any interference from their regular provider.  So far none have taken it to the fidonet level - other than my 10.1" Android tablet that used termux and my extra-special bash scripts - to actually send msg's via the access point's binkd.  I did post a few msg's in this echoarea not that long ago.

 CP> but are interested in QWK style message applications

I will ALWAYS pass on QWK.  The offline idea is what attracts me but instead keeping to text messages for posting/reading/replying purposes and then tacking the crappy msg headers when creating the outbound pkt for the bossnode.  That way no gateways for conversion(s) are needed.  So far this has worked best at this end.

Life is good,
Maurice

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