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A bulletin board (pinboard, pin board or notice board in British English) is a place where people can leave public message
Message

A message in its most general meaning is an Object of communication. It is something which provides information; it can also be this information itself....
s, for example, to advertise things to buy or sell, announce events, or provide information
Information

Information as a Conveyed concept has a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control system, data, form, instruction, knowledge, Meaning , stimulation, pattern, perception, and knowledge representation....
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A bulletin board (pinboard, pin board or notice board in British English) is a place where people can leave public message
Message

A message in its most general meaning is an Object of communication. It is something which provides information; it can also be this information itself....
s, for example, to advertise things to buy or sell, announce events, or provide information
Information

Information as a Conveyed concept has a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control system, data, form, instruction, knowledge, Meaning , stimulation, pattern, perception, and knowledge representation....
. Bulletin boards are often made of a material such as cork
Cork (material)

Cork material is a prime-subset of generic Cork cambium, harvested for commercial use primarily from the Cork Oak tree, Quercus suber, with Portugal producing 50% of cork worldwide....
 to facilitate addition and removal of messages or it can be placed on the computer so people can leave and erase messages for other people to read and see.

Bulletin boards are particularly prevalent at universities
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
. Many sport dozens, if not hundreds or thousands of public bulletin boards, used for everything from advertisements by extracurricular groups and local shops to official notices. Dormitory
Dormitory

Dormitory typically refers in the United States to residence halls, which are sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university students....
 corridors, well-trafficked hallways, lobbies, and freestanding kiosks often have cork boards attached to facilitate the posting of notices. At some universities, lampposts, bollard
Bollard

A bollard is a short vertical post typically found where large ships dock. Bollards are arranged in a line to obstruct the passage of motor vehicles....
s, trees, and walls often become impromptu posting sites in areas where official boards are sparse in number.