Subj : FTN to Telegram
To   : August Abolins
From : Stas Mishchenkov
Date : Wed Aug 19 2020 01:23 pm

Hi, August!

18 авг 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? Ё|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. ;)

Have nice nights.
       Stas Mishchenkov.

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