Subj : FTN to Telegram
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Aug 03 2020 06:36 pm

On 03/08/2020 3:54 a.m., Wilfred van Velzen : August Abolins wrote:

  WvV>>> That has (or had) a gate to a Russian echomail area (I don't know if
  WvV>>> it is still active)...

  AA>> Did the gate work well?  Does anyone know what happend?


 WvV> I just noticed it is still active as "Fido2telebot" user on
 WvV> that list. It's not clear which area it's gating...

I found something too.  Looks like an independent experiment at 2:460/58 in
special echotag/areas named RU.FIDONET.areatag

Translated from the Russian, with my addition of [kludge?], I got this:

"To post to the telegram destination you "write a netmail message to 2:460/58
and the name Fido2telebot, In the subj field we indicate your name in the
telegram. In each gated message from you, the @RealName treasure [kludge?] will
be added from the telegram. "

So.. the To field identifies the group/area at Telegram. And the Subj field is
used to identify the sender.  Doesn't sound too elegant if the gate can't simply
use the From field to identify the sender.

I haven't found info how they steer those netmails to specific areas in the
RU.FIDONET.areatag structure.

--- TB(Stealth)/Win7
 * Origin: nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/360.0)

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