Subj : Re: through the "???"
To   : Charles Pierson
From : Richard Miles
Date : Wed Dec 16 2020 17:16:12

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

Which would make Telegram the "client" that we are accessing Stas' feed from.


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