Hello, Paul Quinn -> Martin Foster.
On 11/5/20 6:54 AM you wrote:

 > Hi! Martin, On 05 Nov 2020, Martin Foster said the following... MF>
 > PQ>> Yes, that is what I intimated.  Have you seen the 'telegrams'?
 > MF>  KR> No. I don't understand telegrams in this context. MF> I
 > think he was referring to the Telegram Messenger -> <- Fidonet
 > gateway. Yes.  Extrapolate the logic by excising the gateway and you
 > get an Android Fidonet.  Sounds like fun, I'm sure.

It is another potential way to access at least some of Fidonet when you
are away from your main computer or however you access it.

 > I like a technical evolution like anyone but it needs a limit or an
 > horizon of sorts.  At the momemt, telegraphing looks great but I
 > worry at where it will end.  (I was 'chanelling' an imaginary person
 > of the 1870s? thinking similar of the original telegraphy.)  I like
 > my GoldEd (& NNTP), oh and BBSs.  :)

As far as I've seen, it's not going anywhere more than how it currently
operates. Much the same as a node or point does.

I prefer the points or BBSs as well, but unfortunately, for the time
being, Point software for Android is limited.

Now, if some better point software like GoldEd was available for Android
......

 > Cheers, Paul. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/32) *
 > Origin: Paul's Pile of Polygonal Pebbles (3:640/1138)

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