Subj : Re: FTN to Telegram
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Mon Aug 10 2020 03:23 pm

Hi August,

On 2020-08-10 09:17:00, you wrote to me:

 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...?

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

Good question. ;)

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

Of course a more specific app could be more atractive.

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

More (redundant) gateways would be better of course, but not stricktly necessary. And it wouldn't matter for the Telegram user, as long as there is 1 working for his favorite echomail area. ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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