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    From bbsing@LUNAROUT to MRO on Wed Jan 28 11:03:14 2026
    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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  • From Nightfox@DIGDIST to bbsing on Wed Jan 28 15:45:50 2026
    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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  • From Digital Man to bbsing on Fri Feb 6 01:00:57 2026
    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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  • From Dumas Walker@CAPCITY2 to BBSING on Fri Feb 6 10:04:55 2026
    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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