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*ANNOUNCING*


eGenix Antispam Bot for Telegram

Version 0.6.0

A simple, yet effective bot implementation
to address Telegram signup spam.

This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: https://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-Antispam-Bot-for-Telegram-0.6.0-GA.html

------------------------------------------------------------------------ *INTRODUCTION*

eGenix <https://egenix.com/> has long been running a local Python user
group meeting in Düsseldorf called /Python Meeting Düsseldorf <https://pyddf.de/>/ and we are using a Telegram group for most of our communication.

In the early days, the group worked well and we only had few spammers
joining it, which we could well handle manually.

More recently, this has changed dramatically. We are seeing between 2-5
spam signups per day, often at night. Furthermore, the signups accounts
are not always easy to spot as spammers, since they often come with
profile images, descriptions, etc.

With the bot, we now have a more flexible way of dealing with the problem.

Please see our project page for details and download links:

https://www.egenix.com/library/telegram-antispam-bot/

------------------------------------------------------------------------ *FEATURES*

* Low impact mode of operation: the bot tries to keep noise in the
group to a minimum
* Several challenge mechanisms to choose from, more can be added as needed
* Flexible and easy to use configuration
* Only needs a few MB of RAM, so can easily be put into a container or
run on a Raspberry Pi
* Can handle quite a bit of load due to the async implementation
* Works with Python 3.9+
* MIT open source licensed


------------------------------------------------------------------------
*NEWS*

The 0.6.0 release fixes a few bugs and adds more features:

* Upgraded to pyrogram 2.0.106, which fixes a weird error we have been
getting recently with the old version 1.4.16 (see
pyrogram/pyrogram#1347
<https://github.com/pyrogram/pyrogram/issues/1347>)
* Catch weird error from Telegram when deleting conversations; this
seems to sometimes fail, probably due to a glitch on their side
* Made the math and char entry challenges a little harder
* Added new DictItemChallenge

It has been battle-tested in production for several years already
already and is proving to be a really useful tool to help with Telegram
group administration.


Enjoy,
--
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

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