Subj : FTN to Telegram
To   : Stas Mishchenkov
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Aug 18 2020 09:15 pm

Hello Stas!

** On Monday 17.08.20 - 18:48, Stas Mishchenkov wrote..

 AA>> I understand this to mean that you would be fine with
 AA>> just the gating operation, and not the moderation task
 AA>> (spotting spam, blocking users, etc) on the Telegram
 AA>> side?

 SM> Yes. You are right.

Maybe a handful of other echos could open up for the gate.  
The current moderator just needs to create matching-name  
private group on Telegram and your Fido2telebot personality  
just "joins" it?


 SM> The moderator can always contact me to block the user
 SM> from the gate.

It is good to have your willingness to step in.  Thanks.


 AA>> As a minimum, I would assume that for fidonet
 AA>> purposes, any gated group would be best set up as a
 AA>> private group to start with?

 SM> In deed. However, open groups are very useful and bring
 SM> new users to the Fido network, as well as help old ones
 SM> to return.

Hmmmm..  maybe this new outreach of fidonet echos could use  
a dedicated Telenet-only FIDONET.STARTHERE (or something  
like that) group or a read-only channel that advertises  
which echos are gated and promotes this smooth and easy  
accessibility via smartphone.

BTW..  how long have you been gating Telegram|FTN ?


 SM> What? ð|8-(  )=

And that is secret glyph/code for what?  :/

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