Subj : FTN to Telegram
To   : Stas Mishchenkov
From : August Abolins
Date : Sat Aug 15 2020 11:03 pm

Hello Stas!

** On Friday 14.08.20 - 11:04, Stas Mishchenkov wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> How much use is the Telegram/echomail gate getting?

 SM> I don't quite understand what you mean.

I meant, how much activity do you measure through the gateway?


 AA>> How many participants are there?

 SM> About 120.

I see 100 in fidonet.online now.  Are you including additional users in  
the FidoNet(unofficial) group too?

OR.. is it just the two groups that the user Fido2telebot is a member of?   
I see Fido2telebot in the PVT.ZONA and fidonet.online groups.


 AA>> How many different echos are you processing?

 SM> There is three groups of Telegram available publicly, any Telegram user
 SM> can join. Several echoes is gated for my personal use only.

Would you be inclined to expand the concept to an english-speaking crowd?

I've seen some Fido2telebot posts.  I see that you maintain the full name  
of the user coming in from the Fido side.  Are you able to maintain  
threading with replies in the Telegram-to-Fido direction?


 AA>> I'm pressed that you are also servicing movement of files.

 SM> May be "impressed"? ;)

You are absolutely correct.  My fingers raced ahead of me and I didn't  
notice the error until the message was done.


 AA>>   With the URLs to the Fido part, does the user pull the file off a
 AA>> Telegram server?

 SM> No.  I hold files on my own server.

 AA>> I have many other questions, but I'll try to control myself - I
 AA>> promise.

 SM> Feel free to ask me.

I've already started; see above. :)

Now that I am in Telegram and looking around, I see that it's not a bad  
system at all.  The S)earch feature is awesome.  The support for attaching  
files and photos and having them actually in their own "albums" or section  
for a discussion group is pretty good. A right-click on an image provides  
an option to go to the message that it was posted with - or people can  
view the images on their own.  Same thing with audio and video files!

I think you already mentioned that when your gateway processes a Telegram  
message that includes an image, the fido echo user sees a link for it from  
your own server?

I like Telegrams "Members" list view.  Unlike traditional FTN where you  
cannot see lurkers, with Telegram you know who's a member of a message  
group - which makes finding someone handy.

Message and member control is amazing.  Re-editing a posted message is  
very nice.

More thoughts and questions later.





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