Subj : FTN to Telegram
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Aug 10 2020 09:17 am

Hello Wilfred!

** On Monday 10.08.20 - 13:35, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> I lieu of waiting for the ideal programmer to take up the gauntlet
 AA>> of reaching the smartphone crowd with a new API that can talk to
 AA>> BBSes, maybe a Telegram gateway could work with the ready-made
 AA>> Telegram code.

 WvV> What do you mean? Stass is already running such a gateway, so...?

Yes..  Stas is demonstrating that his gateway works.  He has the magic  
sauce to transcode FTN bits with Telegram bits.  But would he share the  
sauce so that other sysops can adapt it to their BBSes?

The Telegram option is not what I perceived that sysops were looking for.   
It sounded like sysops where hoping for app/smartphone interface that ties  
directly with their BBS software.

But since Telegram provides an app + an api to utilize, a gateway could be  
an alternative method to get fidonet echos accessible to the smartphone  
user.  Each sysop could employ a gateway for the echos they want to  
support directly.  Otherwise, the system really just needs someone like  
Stas's system to do all the work?

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