Subj : FTN to Telegram
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Aug 03 2020 08:20 pm

On 03/08/2020 12:18 p.m., Wilfred van Velzen : August Abolins wrote:

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


 AA>> And the Subj field is used to identify the sender.

 WvV> On the Telegram side. So I think it could be anything (i.e. a
 WvV> regular Subject) in the netmail.

Ah.. "In the subj field *we* indicate your name.."


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


 WvV> I did a test, and got this reply:

 WvV>  From : Fido2TeleBOT            2:460/58      2020-08-03 19:14:06
 WvV>  To   : Wilfred van Velzen      2:280/464     2020-08-03 18:16:01
 WvV>  Subj : telegramm gate
 WvV> ??????????????????????????????????????????????
 WvV> @INTL 2:280/464 2:460/58
 WvV> @MSGID: 2:460/58 5f2837cf
 WvV> @TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2020-04-15
 WvV> Hi Wilfred van Velzen,
 WvV>
 WvV>    I've got Youre mesage. All done.
 WvV>
 WvV> @Via 2:460/58 @20200803.161408.UTC hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2020-04-15
 WvV> ...
Interesting.  Maybe the destination is just ONE fido area at the fellow's BBS,
for now.


 WvV> But I didn't see anything pop up in the Telegram
 WvV> fidonet.online group. So I don't know where it went...

Keep us posted!

It is an interesting experiment not unlike JAMnntp.  It bridges people from
different environments.

I wonder what the part "the @RealName treasure will be added from the telegram"
means.

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