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+[ ] Menu for direct messages
+	[ ] Commands for new user registration
+	[ ] If registered/online -- responding to PMs (always require prefix)
+
+[ ] Open upstream connections
+	[ ] when new users register
+	[ ] open existing connections at app startup
+
+[ ] Handle upstream messages
+	[ ] Coalesce matches from multiple upstream connections?
+	[ ] When recieving a PM - send directly to telegram user account
+
+[ ] Graceful termination
+	[ ] Ability to close nmdc connections
+	[ ] Close nmdc connection && deregister user (with bot message) when user leaves groupchat
+
+[ ] Block unknown users from entering telegram channel
+
+[ ] Attachment support
+	[ ] Convert telegram files/images/videos to raw URLs for NMDC
+		[ ] Bot API does allow downloading - but (?authenticated)? need to re-host (either internally or upload to contented server)
+	[ ] Contented support - convert known URLs with image mime type to telegram images
+
+[ ] Publish