Subj : Question about telegram
To   : Alan Ianson
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri Nov 20 2020 08:46 pm

Hello Alan!

** On Friday 20.11.20 - 16:51, Alan Ianson wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> Simple. Steer them to https://telegram.org/

 AI> I have pointed out the website and quoted a bit from the
 AI> FAQ. I am not sure that I have answered the questions I
 AI> was asked well. There was a bit of hate I was seeing, or
 AI> maybe it was fear of the unknown.

Perhaps you can reassure those people that their existing  
echomail, the non-Telegram-linked ones, are gated and massaged  
to fit other platforms (uucp, nntp) and hosted on mysterious  
VPS equipment and ISP servers in unknown places all over the  
world just the same. Sometimes a simple google search for an  
echotag and a username will produce a few more horrors that  
they are not aware of.

Some people just have to look in the mirror.  There are  
numerous BBSes that freely scrape data from websites and plop  
it in echomail. Personally, I think the ability can be useful!  
But if those sysops and users partake of those echos and  
appreciate it, are their assurances that permission was  
granted from those sources? Or, have the sources been informed  
that their data is being distributed on the mysterious Fidonet  
"platform"? There is no hypocrisy in Fidonet, right?  ;)


 AI> We could use any area. This area would also do fine I think as would
 AI> NET_DEV. I just wonder what would work for Stas and once I know I'll
 AI> direct questions I can't answer there.

NET_DEV, according to the desc, seems to be focused on the  
tech that supports nodes connecting to other nodes. Stas' node  
and the packets he processes complies with all that.

I would rather see a TELEGRAM.FIDONET echo for discussion on  
that topic.

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