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)