Subj : FTN to Telegram
To   : August Abolins
From : Stas Mishchenkov
Date : Thu Aug 13 2020 10:58 am

Hi, August!

09  ąŁ 20 10:37, August Abolins -> Wilfred van Velzen:

 AA>>> I am curious to understand what "the Next FTN generation" means.

 WvV>> You will have to ask him yourself. ;)

 AA> I have! But it seems that we may have the wrong guy w.r.t the Telegram
 AA> destination that used that slogan

In general, in the Russian-speaking part of Fido, this is rather a kind of good teasing on young programmers who are going to write a "new Fidonet", and not a slogan.

 AA> Stay tuned.  Stas has indicated interest to drop by and explain
 AA> things.

I'll try. ;)

 AA> It sounds like he has identified a need to link traditional Telegram
 AA> users
 AA> (mobile, and far from his local region) with dialup users to echos on his
 AA> bbs.

Not "need". It's a hobby, not more.

 AA> Some of the aspects of Telegram are intriguing: privacy within a
 AA> group, unsending (deleting messages), voice chat, message search, msg
 AA> tracing/threading, file sharing, end-to-end encryption, secret chats,
 AA> ..to name a few.

 AA> For "echomail" all the secret stuff is nullified, but bridging mobile
 AA> users to bbs users seems to be the main purpose.

Not quite right, but something like this.

The choice in favor of Telegram was made because it provides a free opportunity to do all this.

Have nice nights.
       Stas Mishchenkov.

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