Hello Tony!
** On Friday 21.08.20 - 08:33, Tony Langdon wrote to Stas Mishchenkov:
Hmm, OK. Suppose that protects one from spam bots.
Yes. Exactly. However, in our case it is not convenient.
I can understand why it's that way, I have seen spam bots on
various chat networks, including Telegram, where they join
quiet group chats and post spam.
WRT gated netmail, it turns out that the Fido2telebot bot waited
a little while until you figured out that you needed to open a
chat with it. That seems to be only slightly inconvenient.
But if both parties have Telegram accounts, there is not much
point in gating netmail.
However, if a Fido-only user were to want to reach a telegram-
only user, then they would have at least one public message in
the echo to give the Telegram recipient a heads up.
WRT groups, the private type (invitation only) on Telegram is
best for gating purposes. Sysops wouldn't want an influx of
anonymous posts.
Personally, I am liking this outreach thru Telegram. Even the
portable desktop version of Telegram is handy to take along for
use on any pc and still get a modest sense of messages pouring in
- and not have to worry about installing full fido software or
configuring nntp just to poke around a few echos.
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