Subj : Sorry for dupes. Completely rewrote send
To   : August Abolins
From : Brother Rabbit
Date : Sat Sep 12 2020 04:18 pm

Answering a msg from August Abolins:
>Hello Charles!
>
>** On Saturday 12.09.20 - 06:50, Charles Pierson wrote to Stas Mishchenkov:
>
> CP> I have a question.  Elsewhere you were talking about the
> CP> portability of the gateway.  If multiple nodes had
> CP> gateways, wouldn't that increase duplicate messages
> CP> throughout?  As the messages worked their way through the
> CP> Fido system, any gateways which received them would then
> CP> send them to Telegram, which could keep the process going
> CP> ad infinitum?
>
>The way I understand it: firstly, if the groups are kept  
>private super-groups (which they should be), TgM users would  
>link up by invitation.  It is possible that in the future, BBS  
>X could be hosting a gate bot, and so could BBS Y.  But, a  
>user would only need to pick one for a specific echo. Then,  
>since all messages get converted into fido format, they would  
>have unique MSGIDs anyway.
>
>
>--
>  ../|ug

This can become a problem when the same messages from Fido will appear in the same Telegram group, gated on different nodes with different msgid.


--- tg2fido.pl
 * Origin: Telegram to fido gate by Stas Mishchenkov (2:460/58)

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