Restrict channel will will respond to in Slack

[Ashex]

This is a half decent implementation of the hipchat rooms restriction. This works by checking the channel a message from the RTM stream is coming from, it is discarded if it does not come from an allowed list.

I believe this also reduces the processing load from handling all the messages.

[skoczen]

So, I like the efficiency idea behind this - but since slack allows adhoc joins (and people seem to be using them), I'm not sure it makes sense to explicitly restrict Will's ability to respond to ROOMS.

That said, this certainly should be documented a whole lot better.

[Ashex]

I think workspace tokens will make it a lot easier to manage as the permission of scope can be locked down. Currently apps can be added to any channel and we have no control over that, the static channel ACL is simply my solution.

My other idea was to maintain this list inside redis so that an empowered individual (command locked down with user acl) could update the room restriction on the fly.

[Ashex]

Hi @skoczen Let me know what changes you'd like to see and I'll implement them.