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   Hello Nigel!   
      
   ** On Saturday 21.11.20 - 22:20, Nigel Reed wrote to Charles Pierson:   
      
    >> It's the same with Telegram. You have to have an   
    >> authenticated Telegram account in order to join any of the   
    >> group chats to be able to read or write.   
      
    NR> And therein lies the difference. It's a telgram account.   
    NR> It's not an access method controlled by any BBS on   
    NR> Fidonet. What if the person causes problems such as   
    NR> posting junk or spam? How are they removed or forbidden   
    NR> from posting?   
      
   I invite you to hop on over to FIDONET.TELEGRAM echo where     
   people can answer specific questions like that.   
      
   But for a quick answer, the solution to the how a user is     
   banned is very easy - and universal. Once the person is     
   disallowed, they can never get back in the group unless they     
   change their phone number - and are reauthenticated by the     
   Telegram system.   Using throw-away one-time-use numbers are     
   also heavily scrutinized by Telegram - and many of those are     
   automaticaly banned at the outset.  For the most part,     
   Telegram seems to only allow phone numbers that can be     
   associated with acutal phone carriers, not virtual ones.   
      
   Further, there *is* a BBS system in the middle, before     
   messages reach Fidonet.  A user can be filtered out at that     
   point too.   
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