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|    Richard Miles to Charles Pierson    |
|    Re: through the "???"    |
|    16 Dec 20 17:16:12    |
      MSGID: 2:460/58 0000007e       REPLY: 1:153/757.26 fadff9cb       PID: tg_BBS_v0.6.3       CHRS: CP866 2       TGUID: 249680311       REPLYTO 2:460/58 249680311        CP> On 16 Dec 2020, Wilfred van Velzen said the following...        CP>         CP> Wv> Hi August,        CP> Wv>         CP> Wv> On 2020-12-15 23:45:00, you wrote to Charles Pierson:        CP> Wv>         CP> Wv> CP>> Actually, the Telegram Groups are the BBS. the Bot is a        CP> Wv> CP>> mailer/tosser that converts from Telegram-speak to Fido-        CP> Wv> CP>> speak.        CP> Wv>         CP> Wv> AA> I see it that way too. The Telegram groups are merely a        CP> Wv> AA> mirror of the same echos on Stas' BBS. .: the Telegram        CP> Wv> AA> groups are as if participating on Stas' BBS albiet with a        CP> Wv> AA> different reader/app unlike anything else currently available        CP> Wv> AA> for fidonet users.        CP> Wv>         CP> Wv> The same could be said about newsgroups on a bbs. But they call that        CP> Wv> "gating" too...        CP>         CP> The difference being that with the Telegram BBS, the users and their       messages        CP> have a distinct node seperate from Stas's BBS.        CP>         CP> You aren't creating an account on Stas's BBS. You are creating an account       on        CP> Telegram. Stas's BBS acts as a Hub or Feed for the Telegram BBS.              Which would make Telegram the "client" that we are accessing Stas' feed from.                     --- tg BBS v0.6.3        * Origin: Fido by Telegram BBS by Stas Mishchenkov (2:460/58)       SEEN-BY: 105/81 129/305 153/757 221/0 6 360 229/426 664 700 280/464       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 301/1 322/757 335/364 460/58 777 1124 5858 4500/1       SEEN-BY: 5054/30       PATH: 460/58 221/6 153/757 229/664 426           |
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