Subj : FTN to Telegram
To : August Abolins
From : Stas Mishchenkov
Date : Wed Aug 19 2020 01:23 pm
Hi, August!
18 ��� 20 21:15, August Abolins -> Stas Mishchenkov:
AA> Maybe a handful of other echos could open up for the gate.
This requires the consent of the moderator.
AA> The current moderator just needs to create matching-name
AA> private group on Telegram and your Fido2telebot personality
AA> just "joins" it?
Right. The moderator can create a group in Telegram himself and add a bot there. After that contact me to add this echo conference to the list of gated ones.
AA> Hmmmm.. maybe this new outreach of fidonet echos could use
AA> a dedicated Telenet-only FIDONET.STARTHERE (or something
AA> like that) group
It is quite logical to create a Telegram group for new users, gated in Fido. However, such a group lacks a full understanding of what the Fido network is and what a membership in it would actually look like.
AA> or a read-only channel that advertises
AA> which echos are gated and promotes this smooth and easy
AA> accessibility via smartphone.
I think such a channel is quite possible to create, but it will not need to be gated in Fido.
AA> BTW.. how long have you been gating Telegram|FTN ?
I do not remember exactly. A little over a year or so.
SM>> What? �|8-( )=
AA> And that is secret glyph/code for what? :/
This emoticon depicts a face with a mouth wide open in surprise, eyes wide open in surprise, hair standing on end and a beard. ;)
