Bulletin board system
B B s/BBS/bulletin board system

To the third party is possible the fact that the message which we would like to inform is written, it is the Web sight and the message board or actualize that the system and the service which is inside the groupware. Even BBS and you say.

Different from E-mail, it is suitable for 1 to 1 without being, directing to the many people and conveying message and information. When a certain user writes in message in the bulletin board, the other user (plural) it can read this, when 1 person who is in the user which was read replies in this, that is designed in such a way that you can peruse the other user. With this repetition, it becomes possible exchange of opinions mutually between the group of users.

In exchanging the real time the point which can know the process of argument by the user which it could not participate and reading past speech and advances, are the merit.

The bulletin board system the server (the host computer) is prepared on, the user accessing this, reads and writes message. Due to the function and setting of the system, it is possible to restrict the participation member, to permit the entry of message in only the member of specification, or to be able to delete message to try. Usually, as for deletion you have become this person who was written and the way which the manager of the bulletin board can do.

BBS service existed even in the personal computer communication of at one time PC-VAN and NIFTY-Serve etc.. With personal computer communication of these times the bulletin board was leader service, the difference of E-mail and the bulletin board system in addition in personal computer communication, that you say whether the reader is limited to 1, whether it makes the group of people, from the fact that it is the difference, pointing personal computer communication service to the thing of the whole had "BBS".

As for BBS of these times, those which rate with closed the user is limited to the member and the register person were many, but with bulletin board service on Web in Internet being free, anyone those which it can participate are many (anonymity). As the bulletin board system service of free "don't you think? 2 the ?" is famous.