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  Re: Asia/Asian?
  By: Christian Jacob to Carol Shenkenberger on Mon Mar 14 2022 08:34 am

 > //Hello Carol,//
 > 
 > am *13.03.22* um *22:47:42* schreibst Du in Area *ASIAN_LINK*
 > an *August Abolins* ueber *"Asia/Asian?"*.
 > 
 > 
 >  >>  >> Getting started with Telegram is just TWO steps:
 >  >>  >>
 >  >>  >> [1] Install Telegram
 >  >>  >> [2] Send %HELP and %LIST to the @Fido2telebot to get
 >  >> started!
 >  >>  >>
 >  >>  >> Do Aftershock/HotdogEd make it easier than that?  :D
 > 
 >  >>  CS> Exactly and I like it!  We move forward, or die.
 > 
 >  >> Does anyone know an iPhone user who you could entice to give the Telegra
 >  >> + @Fido2telebot solution a try?
 > 
 > ALthough FidoNet is not as popular as in the 20s anymore and I really do
 > understand that people who actually still use it would love to see more
 > users come back or even experience FidoNet the first time, I don't think tha
 > telegram is the best way.
 > 
 > It IS modern and well adopted, but personally, I don't trust telegram.
 > Also, this platform has quite a tendency to attract people with kind of
 > a weird view on the world.
 > 
 > Lately, I thought that reviving FidoNet especially in the eastern reagion of
 > Zone 2 would allow people from respective countries to communicate with the
 > "outside" world bypassing their governments' control over the internet.
 > 
 > Solutions such as Telegram would not fit into that idea though. :)
 > 
 > 
 > Viele Gruesse,
 > Christian Jacob

Oh, I think it's helped get some of the eastern Russians in.  Younger kids
today are glued to cellphones and if it's not an 'app', it tends to not exist.

Whet the appetite with a cellphone app then expand.

   xxcarol
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