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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...
Today's Trivia Question: What was the RFC (Request For Comments) Number for the original Usenet Standard? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State,...
David E. from Virginia Beach, VA USA won today's trivia contest by correctly providing the following answer: Posting not allowed POST command issued when posting is not allowed. David will receive a free month of...
The Usenet Newsgroups Trivia contest appears to be a success. We have received over twenty correct answers for each of the first two questions. We are sure once the idea catches on, we will probably get even more people...
Today's trivia question: What does it mean if your newsreader returns a status code of 440? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will...
We have a winner! Juan N. from Madrid, Spain was the first to submit that Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis were given credit for conceiving the Usenet at Duke University in 1979. Juan will receive a free month of Newsgroups...
Here is today's usenet trivia question: What are the names of the two graduate student given credit for creating usenet? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name,...
We have a winner! Sam C. of Aurora, Colorado, USA successfully answered June 25, 2005 as the date AOL discontinued servicing usenet customers through their service! Sam will receive a free month of newsgroups access...
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...
Just a quick note, the usenet feed size, or the amount of data posted into Newsdemon.com usenet newsgroups, for the month of March was roughly 3.8 TB per day. We will try to post a monthly note regarding the feed size....
Thats right. We know the economic times have tightened. Thats why we have decided to offer creative ways for our customers to get free usenet access. We have created three easy ways you can get a free month of Newsdemon...
The Latest revisions of Version 13.2 address the following: Improved the error retry facility so that logon errors are retried as well as download I/O errors. There is a new parameter on the Configure/Advanced screen...
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