BBoard

/bee'bord/

[ contraction of Bulletin Board ]

n. 

1. Any electronic bulletin board; esp. used of BBS systems running on personal micros, less frequently of a USENET newsgroup (in fact, use of the term for a newsgroup generally marks one either as a newbie fresh in from the BBS world or as a real old-timer predating USENET).
2. At CMU and other colleges with similar facilities, refers to campus-wide electronic bulletin boards.

3. The term physical bboard is sometimes used to refer to a old-fashioned, non-electronic cork memo board. At CMU, it refers to a particular one outside the CS Lounge.

   In either of senses 1 or 2, the term is usually prefixed by the name of the intended board (the Moonlight Casino bboard or market bboard); however, if the context is clear, the better-read bboards may be referred to by name alone, as in (at CMU) "Don't post for-sale ads on general".