The Auto Message is a short note shown to every user at logon — a single shared message that any user can update. As soon as the next person changes it, yours is gone. It's the BBS equivalent of a whiteboard: casual, public, and ephemeral.
In the Classic shell, press A from the Main prompt.
A live capture from vertrauen:
Auto Message Read, Write, or Quit:
R — Read the current auto-messageW — Write a new auto-message (see below)Q — Quit back to the Main prompt
Sysops also see a D — Delete option to remove the auto-message entirely.
Selecting W gives you up to 3 lines of text to compose, each up to 76 characters (or shorter if the sysop has a meme/border feature enabled). After typing your lines, you're asked to confirm before the message is posted.
The posted message records your username and the timestamp. Once confirmed, the previous auto-message is replaced for all users immediately.
Only one auto-message exists at a time — there is no history visible to users.
A from Main prompt