Subj : ::: NEWS ::: Telegram-based BBS Echos
To   : Nigel Reed
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Nov 22 2020 08:57:00

Hello Nigel!

** On Saturday 21.11.20 - 22:20, Nigel Reed wrote to Charles Pierson:

 >> It's the same with Telegram. You have to have an
 >> authenticated Telegram account in order to join any of the
 >> group chats to be able to read or write.

 NR> And therein lies the difference. It's a telgram account.
 NR> It's not an access method controlled by any BBS on
 NR> Fidonet. What if the person causes problems such as
 NR> posting junk or spam? How are they removed or forbidden
 NR> from posting?

I invite you to hop on over to FIDONET.TELEGRAM echo where  
people can answer specific questions like that.

But for a quick answer, the solution to the how a user is  
banned is very easy - and universal. Once the person is  
disallowed, they can never get back in the group unless they  
change their phone number - and are reauthenticated by the  
Telegram system.   Using throw-away one-time-use numbers are  
also heavily scrutinized by Telegram - and many of those are  
automaticaly banned at the outset.  For the most part,  
Telegram seems to only allow phone numbers that can be  
associated with acutal phone carriers, not virtual ones.

Further, there *is* a BBS system in the middle, before  
messages reach Fidonet.  A user can be filtered out at that  
point too.
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  ../|ug

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