Today’s Question:  What does a 502 error mean?

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Today’s Question:  In 1993, the NSFnet Acceptable Use Policy was “reinterpreted”.  Why?

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Today’s Question:  What year were the first moderated groups (mod.*) introduced to Usenet?

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Today’s Question:  What does the NNTP reply code 250 mean?

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Today’s question:  The @ sign was chosen from the punctuation keys on Tomlinson’s Model 33 Teletype for its “at” meaning.   What year did this happen?

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We want everyone to know we are really excited about the trivia contest.  We received over 25 correct answers for the trivia contest from April 26th.  We decided to create a free one month account for every correct answer we received!  If you didn’t answer, you missed out!  We may do this again in the future so keep trying even if you do not win the first or second time you enter.

Just a reminder, we will now be posting the winners in the comments section of the blog post for each question.

Here is today’s trivia question: When did the “Great Renaming” occur?

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We have a winner!

 H.G from London, England won today’s question with the following answer:  humanities.*, comp.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, and talk.*

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Here is today’s usenet trivia question:  Name the Big 8 hierarchies

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We have a winner for yesterday’s question.

 J.R. of Paris, France succesfully answered:

Some users placed the word “meow” in their killfiles due to  several spammer who had invaded many groups.  Long story short, these spammers were posting spam which often contained the word “meow” or other feline references.

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Today’s question is a little more challenging and might require some research by the average usenet user.

Question: Why was the word “meow” placed into many experienced usenetters’ “killfiles” in the mid 1990’s?

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We have a winner for yesterday’s Newsgroups Usenet Trivia contest.

Charles J. of London, UK correctly answered that the original standard was RFC 0850.  We actually would have accepted several different answers for this questions because there is some debate about which RFC is truly the Usenet’s original standard.
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Today’s Trivia Question:  What was the RFC (Request For Comments) Number for the original Usenet Standard?

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Today’s trivia question:  What does it mean if your newsreader returns a status code of 440?

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We have decided to offer a regular “Free Usenet Trivia Contest”.  We will be asking a single trivia question regarding something “usenet related”.  The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner.  The winner will receive a free month of Newsdemon.com Usenet Access!  Only the FIRST CORRECT email we receive at trivia@newsdemon.com with the user’s real information will be considered.  We will announce the winner within 24 hours of posting the Trivia Question.  If you submit an answer and do not hear back from us, then you are not the winner.  We will post the winners first name, last initial, city, and country on the blog after we have emailed the winner.  If you are not the winner, check back tomorrow, we may post another Usenet Trivia question tomorrow!

Today’s question: On what date did America Online (AOL) discontinue providing free newsgroup access through its service