Subj : Telegram for fidonet purposes
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Aug 10 2020 08:29 pm

Hello Wilfred!

** On Monday 10.08.20 - 15:20, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

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

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

Ah.. yes, with the service from FreePhonNum and ReceiveSMS, an actual  
phone is not required at all and can be triggered on a completely  
different device such as a laptop.

Those two above just blow my mind.  They're kinda like echomail for sms.   
<LOL>.  The sms texts are totally public! Anyone can read the sms texts.  
But hopefully the one that pertains to you will show up in a few minutes  
and stand out.


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

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

I had uBlocker and noScript on my XP pc for a few years. But eventually  
Firefox disabled them.  :(   Meanwhile, this recent experience has been  
the incentive I needed to look for an alternative plug-in. Found one.   
https://www.rollingstone.com/ is also notorious for streaming ads. The new  
plugin blocked 66 ads in 3 minutes, and the number keeps increasing while  
reading just one specific page.  Sheeesh.

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  ../|ug

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