Hello Wilfred!

** On Monday 10.08.20 - 13:51, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

[3] Each account is tied to the phone number for the user. That might
be fine for the user (analogous to a BBS user or a point), but inorder
to work, the BBS sysop would have to sacrifice their phone's Telegram
account to identify as the gateway-ID.

That's not strictly true! You only need a phonenumber for the account verification process. Once you have created the Telegram account you don't need it anymore:

https://social.techjunkie.com/use-telegram-without-phone-number/

Thank you for posting that.

It is cool to be reminded about alternative ways to get a temporary phone number forwarded to one's "real" cellphone. I heard of some of them some
time ago. I may even employ one of the methods to minimize exposing my
real cell number for general use.

But the title of the article is misleading. You ultimately still need a
real cellphone to forward the temporary one since the verification process
is via text. A plain landline phone nummber isn't going to work.

It is good to know that my assumption about sacrificing a cellphone for a dedicated gate with Telegram is wrong.

(BTW.. the site is a horrible advertising mess with a constant feed of ads refreshing + animations + popups, and wasting my data, and ads placed
within the body of the text every new page-down. The main article of the text was loaded but data continued to stream up to 6MB within 2 minutes
while reading the article, and no signs of slowing down before I cut it
off.)

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Hi August,

On 2020-08-10 08:59:00, you wrote to me:

[3] Each account is tied to the phone number for the user. That
might be fine for the user (analogous to a BBS user or a point), but
inorder to work, the BBS sysop would have to sacrifice their phone's
Telegram account to identify as the gateway-ID.

That's not strictly true! You only need a phonenumber for the account
verification process. Once you have created the Telegram account you
don't need it anymore:

https://social.techjunkie.com/use-telegram-without-phone-number/

Thank you for posting that.

It is cool to be reminded about alternative ways to get a temporary phone number forwarded to one's "real" cellphone. I heard of some of them some time ago. I may even employ one of the methods to minimize exposing my real cell number for general use.

But the title of the article is misleading. You ultimately still need
a real cellphone to forward the temporary one since the verification process is via text. A plain landline phone nummber isn't going to
work.

Nope, but you do need a working internet connection, with a browser, on your connection device...

It is good to know that my assumption about sacrificing a cellphone
for a dedicated gate with Telegram is wrong.

(BTW.. the site is a horrible advertising mess with a constant feed of ads
refreshing + animations + popups, and wasting my data, and ads placed
within the body of the text every new page-down. The main article of the
text was loaded but data continued to stream up to 6MB within 2 minutes
while reading the article, and no signs of slowing down before I cut it
off.)

I don't see them because of add-blocker plugins in my browser. ;-)

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi! August,

On 13 Aug 20 00:43, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

BTW, Stas has indicated that he has hooked up to this echo.
Hopefully he'll jump in soon and expound on his Telegram/fidonet
gateway.

We'll see. ;)

He has indicted to me that he sent one to post on Sunday, but it
hasn't shown up here.

We uneathed a glitch in the FidoMatrix, fixed l-a-t-e last night (my time). Standby for plan B...

Cheers,
Paul.

... My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my toys!
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