The original "who shot mr burns contest winner"

in the commentary for "Who Shot Mr Burns Part 2" the writers mention that someone on this very board guessed all the clues right, but could not be contacted because the contest was still running. when they went back to message them the address was inactive.

I was just wondering, if anyone had any idea who it could be, or how we could find out? I know it's been many years and the post itself might be lost to time, but I think we should at least try looking (I don't know if there has been prior looks for them as this is my first time here)

therealslimshady wrote:

I'm not entirely sure it was somebody who posted to alt.tv.simpsons; I think somebody at the time would have noticed it and brought it up when they aired Part 2. (It was probably a college student - you had to go through Unix to access Usenet back then - who either graduated that summer or just happened to be taking a computer science course somewhere that had access to Usenet, so the account would have been vacant by that fall.)

-- Don

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, Don Del Grande wrote:

That's not completely true. It was 1995. The Well had provided Usenet access for a decade. Some BBSs had limited Usenet access (ie they'd provide newsgroups that people asked for, I certainly could access sci.electronics in late 1994 via a BBS). But it was also a few years after commercial ISPs had started up. Not the mass that came later, but they were available. I had full internet access in August of 1996, kind of late but I hadnt' thought I could afford it earlier. AOL added Usenet access in 1993, "eternal September", as did Compuserve, so by 1995, access wasn't as limited as even five years before.

Michael