TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815   
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   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221   
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   Hi Charles,   
      
   On 2020-12-16 12:05:47, you wrote to me:   
      
    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...   
      
    CP> The difference being that with the Telegram BBS, the users and their   
    CP> messages have a distinct node seperate from Stas's BBS.   
      
    CP> You aren't creating an account on Stas's BBS. You are creating an account   
    CP> on Telegram. Stas's BBS acts as a Hub or Feed for the Telegram BBS.   
      
   Newsgroup users would have an account at their ISP and/or newsgroup provider.   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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