Subj : future for fido
To   : Alejandro Filimonchuk
From : August Abolins
Date : Sat Apr 30 2022 08:36 am

Hello Alejandro Filimonchuk!

** On Wednesday 27.04.22 - 13:38, Alejandro Filimonchuk wrote to Martin Foster:

 MF>> Nice idea but how do you propose sending out the "invitations".

 AF> Well, we all have relatives/friends/girlfriends, etc :) We
 AF> can, indeed, create custom BBS accounts for, lets say, a
 AF> sister in law, and invite her to one of the telegram
 AF> supported echoes... That is a nice gateway to heavier
 AF> drugs like BBSing hahahaha...

Precisely. It can be a way to point users to other ways to  
experience a BBS directly, especially if they are not impartial  
to using a traditional computer.


 AF> At least, we could bring new people from "the outside". Im
 AF> trying to make that two female friends start posting in
 AF> fidonet, but at least they have read some echoes...

Nice!


 AF> We need to make it simple for people not touched by
 AF> nostalgia or textmode aesthetics. Fidonet, and the rest of
 AF> FTNs, for that matter, are a mistery for a lot of folks
 AF> and gals... even telling them about it is something cool
 AF> to do. Well, for me, at least.

Good going!


 AF> I think telegram gate is a nice setup for that mission.
 AF> But we can figure out much more (thats the entire point of
 AF> this echo).

It's a VERY nice setup.  Only two steps required to get  
started. Can't get much simpler than that!

However, at this time of writing, the Fido<->Tg path is  
intermittent.  But the convos on the Tg side can still carry on  
for the benefit of the Tg users.  ;)

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