Subj : Re: Telegram for fidonet purposes
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Mon Aug 10 2020 03:20 pm

Hi August,

On 2020-08-10 08:59:00, you wrote to me:

 AA>>> [3] Each account is tied to the phone number for the user. That
 AA>>> might be fine for the user (analogous to a BBS user or a point), but
 AA>>> inorder to work, the BBS sysop would have to sacrifice their phone's
 AA>>> Telegram account to identify as the gateway-ID.

 WvV>> That's not strictly true! You only need a phonenumber for the account
 WvV>> verification process. Once you have created the Telegram account you
 WvV>> don't need it anymore:

 WvV>> https://social.techjunkie.com/use-telegram-without-phone-number/

 AA> Thank you for posting that.

 AA> It is cool to be reminded about alternative ways to get a temporary phone
 AA> number forwarded to one's "real" cellphone. I heard of some of them some
 AA> time ago. I may even employ one of the methods to minimize exposing my
 AA> real cell number for general use.

 AA> But the title of the article is misleading. You ultimately still need
 AA> a real cellphone to forward the temporary one since the verification
 AA> process is via text.  A plain landline phone nummber isn't going to
 AA> work.

Nope, but you do need a working internet connection, with a browser, on your connection device...

 AA> It is good to know that my assumption about sacrificing a cellphone
 AA> for a dedicated gate with Telegram is wrong.

 AA> (BTW.. the site is a horrible advertising mess with a constant feed of ads
 AA>  refreshing + animations + popups, and wasting my data, and ads placed
 AA>  within the body of the text every new page-down.  The main article of the
 AA>  text was loaded but data continued to stream up to 6MB within 2 minutes
 AA>  while reading the article, and no signs of slowing down before I cut it
 AA>  off.)

I don't see them because of add-blocker plugins in my browser. ;-)

Bye, Wilfred.

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