Subj : Ideas for authorized gates
To   : Richard Miles
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Thu Nov 19 2020 04:37 am

 Re: Ideas for authorized gates
 By: Richard Miles to Alan Ianson on Thu Nov 19 2020 02:32 pm

RM> That's correct. Access can be shared by either being invited (added) to
RM> the group or by being given the link. Same results.

That's what I thought and I think that is good and secure.

RM> Since they are private groups you can't just join them or search them, so
RM> actually more secure than the echo side.

Excellent. I think some might be afraid of spam posts that seem to get in from time to time. I don't see that happening with telegram.

RM> Most (not all) of the BBSes I've seen allow anyone to access message
RM> areas, including the admin echoes.

I have been guilty of this myself in times passed. I imported a backbone.na and started tossing without thinking of access requirements. A guest user can read what I have here but not post, and admin areas can only be seen by myself.. :)

I have a robots.txt that disallows access to /msgs/ so stuff from here shouldn't be showing up in search results. Honourable bots anyway.

Ttyl :-),
        Al

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