Hi there,
I'm new to BBSes and been wondering how many people are still using them. I'm too young to have used them in their prime, so I am happy theres still a community who maintains them.
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Re: First time
By: Retroschwein to All on Sat Dec 13 2025 10:47:16

I'm new to BBSes and been wondering how many people are still using them.

Well, let's see. There's you...there's me...so at least two. :)
Naturally, there's no way to give any kind of accurate figure, but considering the number of BBSes still around, I'm sure you'll bump into somebody. Just peruse the msg. bases and that'll give you a good idea of who's out there.

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Re: First time
By: Retroschwein to All on Sat Dec 13 2025 10:47 am

Hi there,
I'm new to BBSes and been wondering how many people are still using
them. I'm too young to have used them in their prime, so I am happy
theres still a community who maintains them.

only a few users. probably a hundred sysops.
asian country bbses are BOOMING. china and taiwan have very popular bbses. makes me want to learn their language. they are very active and always have been. i wish we could have that.
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Re: First time
By: MRO to Retroschwein on Sat Dec 13 2025 03:19 pm

only a few users. probably a hundred sysops.
asian country bbses are BOOMING. china and taiwan have very popular makes me want to learn their language. they are very active and alwa been. i wish we could have that.
been. i wish we could have that.

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Re: First time
By: Retroschwein to All on Sat Dec 13 2025 10:47 am

Still quite a few of us!

And still quite a few BBSes out there.

Welcome to BBSing!

*** Diamond Dave ***

Hi there,
I'm new to BBSes and been wondering how many people are still using them. I'

m too young to have used them in their p
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Re: First time
By: Retroschwein to All on Sat Dec 13 2025 10:47 am

Hi there,
I'm new to BBSes and been wondering how many people are still using them. I'm too young to have used them in their prime, so I am happy theres still a community who maintains them.

Welcome to the world of BBS'ing, Suprisingly there are still quite a few of us Many of us are old timers, I personally helped start and ran my 1st BBS in 1987.



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Re: First time
By: Utopian Galt to MRO on Sat Dec 13 2025 04:25 pm

Re: First time
By: MRO to Retroschwein on Sat Dec 13 2025 03:19 pm

only a few users. probably a hundred sysops. asian country bbses are BOOMING. china and taiwan have very popular makes me want to learn their language. they are very active and alwa been. i wish w could have that. been. i wish we could have that.

you know you can delete your posts as a sysop
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I'm new to BBSes and been wondering how many people are still
using them. I'm too young to have used them in their prime, so
I am happy theres still a community who maintains them.

The Sysops do (obviously), but there are several users. There are
a few dial-up BBS's left, but most have migrated over to telnet.

Daryl

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Re: First time
By: MRO to Utopian Galt on Sat Dec 13 2025 21:56:02

you know you can delete your posts as a sysop

last week I was having issues posting a message on fidonet, and I hit the keys to upload a file as the text body.

befor I knew it I somehow sent the message. I went in and attempted to delete it. I haven't checked if it was sent out to all nodes. It was the HAM sub.

I hope we have the ability to delete, but I wonder if a sysop deletes a post does it eventually get removed from other boards? I can't imagine it does. I know its still on my board but marked deleted.

take care.

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Re: First time
By: bbsing to MRO on Wed Jan 28 2026 11:03 am

I hope we have the ability to delete, but I wonder if a sysop deletes a post does it eventually get removed from other boards? I can't imagine it does. I know its still on my board but marked deleted.

It doesn't. Once it gets sent out, it doesn't get deleted from the other boards.

Nightfox

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Re: First time
By: bbsing to MRO on Wed Jan 28 2026 11:03 am

befor I knew it I somehow sent the message. I went in and attempted to delete it. I haven't checked if it was sent out to all nodes. It was the HAM sub.

FidoNet doesn't have a mechanism to delete messages that have already propagated. USENET has/had that, but not FidoNet. It should/could, but it'd likely be widely unsupported since a lot of nodes run old/unsupported software. So the message would live on no matter what... somewhere.
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befor I knew it I somehow sent the message. I went in and attempted to
delete it. I haven't checked if it was sent out to all nodes. It was the HAM sub.

If you don't have your FIDOIN/FIDOOUT events set up to run automatically,
you can delete a message before it goes out, so long as you catch it before
the events do run.

Once it is out, it is out.


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