• I would think each bot would be a unique

    From Charles Pierson@2:460/58 to All on Sat Sep 12 18:04:10 2020
    I would think each bot would be a unique member of the group, so each message from a particular bot would be considered a unique message, the same as if you and I were to post identical messages.
    It seems the most sense is it identifying messages based on the user ID, not the message body itself. Much like messages addressed to me are only flagged "to me" when I see them from the particular feed that message to me was addressed to.


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    * Origin: Telegram to fido gate by Stas Mishchenkov (2:460/58)
  • From Charles Pierson@2:240/1120.976 to Stas Mishchenkov on Sat Sep 12 13:33:14 2020
    Hello, Stas Mishchenkov.
    On 9/12/20 8:32 PM you wrote:

    It seems the most sense is it identifying messages based on the
    user ID, not the message body itself. Much like messages
    addressed to me are only flagged "to me" when I see them from the
    particular feed that message to me was addressed to.
    But here everything is not so simple. However, from the Telegram
    side, bots do not see each other's messages and there is simply no
    such problem. From Fido, however, a flood wave may well rush into
    the group, which will not add to its attractiveness for new users.

    I figured that I was oversimplifying somewhat, bad habit I developed from years of being the go between between the developers and users for software at a former job. I had to come up with ways to get the point across on how the program worked to people with minimal computer experience, as well as figure out their issues to explain them to the developers.
    It's cool that the bots ignore each other. I suppose that helps to limit dumps to Fido. It's the Fido to Telegram where the issue could arise, causing large backlogs of messages for users on the Group.
    As I understand it, this process is meant to be a way for people to access some Fido echoes from their phones, tablets, or such while away from their primary computer. So primarily as a backup system. It's understandable that you wouldn't want a huge glut of messages in such cases. I just wish it had a little bit better layout, but that's likely not possible given the primary intent of Telegram.

    Meanwhile, it is quite possible to add @PID kludge to messages
    from the gate (which is being done now). This will allow the other
    gate to recognize the cousin and not gate back messages from it.

    Nice addition.

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