TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46   
   MSGID: 1:153/757.26 fadff9cb   
   REPLY: 2:280/464 5fd9e329   
   TZUTC: 0000   
   On 16 Dec 2020, Wilfred van Velzen said the following...   
       
    Wv> Hi August,   
    Wv>    
    Wv> On 2020-12-15 23:45:00, you wrote to Charles Pierson:   
    Wv>    
    Wv>  CP>> Actually, the Telegram Groups are the BBS. the Bot is a   
    Wv>  CP>> mailer/tosser that converts from Telegram-speak to Fido-   
    Wv>  CP>> speak.   
    Wv>    
    Wv>  AA> I see it that way too.  The Telegram groups are merely a   
    Wv>  AA> mirror of the same echos on Stas' BBS.   .: the Telegram   
    Wv>  AA> groups are as if participating on Stas' BBS albiet with a   
    Wv>  AA> different reader/app unlike anything else currently available   
    Wv>  AA> for fidonet users.   
    Wv>    
    Wv> The same could be said about newsgroups on a bbs. But they call that   
    Wv> "gating" too...   
      
   The difference being that with the Telegram BBS, the users and their messages   
   have a distinct node seperate from Stas's BBS.   
      
   You aren't creating an account on Stas's BBS. You are creating an account on   
   Telegram. Stas's BBS acts as a Hub or Feed for the Telegram BBS.   
      
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