Subj : Re: through the "???"
To   : Richard Miles
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Wed Dec 16 2020 14:30:56

On 16 Dec 2020, Richard Miles said the following...
 RM>  CP> Wv>  AA> I see it that way too.  The Telegram groups are merely a
 RM>  CP> Wv>  AA> mirror of the same echos on Stas' BBS.   .: the Telegram
 RM>  CP> Wv>  AA> groups are as if participating on Stas' BBS albiet with a
 RM>  CP> Wv>  AA> different reader/app unlike anything else currently availabl
 RM>  CP> Wv>  AA> for fidonet users.
 RM>  CP> Wv> 
 RM>  CP> Wv> The same could be said about newsgroups on a bbs. But they call t
 RM>  CP> Wv> "gating" too...
 RM>  CP> 
 RM>  CP> The difference being that with the Telegram BBS, the users and their 
 RM> messages
 RM>  CP> have a distinct node seperate from Stas's BBS.
 RM>  CP> 
 RM>  CP> You aren't creating an account on Stas's BBS. You are creating an acc
 RM> on
 RM>  CP> Telegram. Stas's BBS acts as a Hub or Feed for the Telegram BBS.
 RM> 
 RM> Which would make Telegram the "client" that we are accessing Stas' feed
 RM> from.

However you term it. 

If/when Stas decides to release his bot to the public, there is the potential
for more of these systems to come into being.

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