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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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