Meaning of Never Ending September | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“>Sheesh, I think the responses to Jerry's "test message" created >more net traffic "noise" than his message alone. Obviously. It is just as obvious to people with experience with the net that test messages are a bane that came with the Never Ending September and exceeded only by spam and flamewars. If these ~6 messages prevent the next dozen test messages we will have come out ahead.”

“I've been doing this "net thing" for the past, uh... (dan^([sic]) looks at calendar and _tries_ to remember when he "appropriated" that URI internet account) going on 7 years, just before The Never Ending September.”

“The FAQ you posted was written in the early 90s. At the time the circle of people on Usenet was relatively small, well before the Never Ending September arrived. The FAQ was also written assuming that everyone was a nice, or at least a reasonable, person.”

“1. The FAQ points out that USENET is not what it used to be before the Never Ending September. Third party cancelling used to be sternly looked down upon. Spam, floods, gibberish, have changed the scene.”

“This is ,if I caclulated it correctly, day 3738 of the Sepember^([sic]) That Never Ended. The Never Ending September started September 1993 when AOL unleashed its gibbering hordes on an unsuspecting Usenet...”

“>I've been here since 1995 and I can tell you with much certainty that >the AOL users were not the ones who made the changes. Happened in 1993. The Never Ending September. And yes, it was AOL that kicked it off, though given the growth of the Internet, it was bound to happen eventually.”

“] I was wondering if there were any swingers in Manitoba? And specifically ] Winnipeg? They were driven off during the first part of the never ending September of 1993, but inter-provincial flame wars. Now that the problem has been solved (i.e. the filtering of outside posts to Manitoba _only_ news groups), there is no one left.”

“> What is the absolutely earliest documented use of this phrase? Who really > started it? > I'm pretty sure this goes back to those Halcyon days before The Great Renaming, many moons before the never ending September that we now live in. Strange days indeed were these for those that lived through them.”

“>Another newbie who just got his computer from WalMart; hasn't >learned to read the author address to discern who posted what. >Have you no brain? Another example of the never ending September.”

“Back when I first started using USENET, you couldn't use it unless you were 18+ : no dial-up accounts then, only students, professors and corporate types. The invasion of the dial-up accounts in the 90's and the comparisons with the new terms at Uni's/Colleges - forming the basis of "the never ending September" phrase :-(”

“Anyway, even if these are wrong, I get the gist. Basically you are saying you like it when people quote 130 lines of SPAM to make an unfunny one-line remark. I guess it's pointless to ask if you remember the never ending September of 1993[1]. […] [1] The September 1993 is described here: - […]”

“Bullshit. Nobody who was using Usenet in 1980 does TOFU posting. Up until the never ending September of 1993, anybody who didn't learn to trim their quoted text would have been hounded off of any reasonable newsgroup.”

“> It was the influx of AOL and then At Home newbies sometime around 1993 > or so that seemed to presage usenet's diminishing signal to noise > ratio. The "never ending September", or some such. If I recall correctly, Compuserve was the first of the kiddie services to connect.”

“Dear Group, *wanders into the never ending September* […]”

“And there were of course cracks about what happens when "just anyone" gets access. And on Usenet it was easily noticed that every September there was a huge influx of newbies who knew nothing (and also that as soon as the Christmas break began there was virtually no traffic at all for a couple weeks.) Next it was "The Well". Those with edu domains teased them. Then it was AOL and the "never ending September". You get the idea... :-)”

“OTOH because there are so many idiots on the net these days and so many expect everything for free some of the old hands (and a lot of the plain arse holes) on here just react without giving the benefit of the doubt. 10-15 years ago (before AOL and the never ending September) the net was a much nicer place. Everyone was presumed innocent first. Now they are assumed guilty.”

“Gee whiz, I thot AOL dropped usenet^([sic]) access! The never ending September continues!”

“It's too bad Cuomo doesn't go after Google, the WebTV interface of Usenet really is the last bastion of the "never ending September".”

“> We do this in May? I thought it was August. I thought one refers to the never ending September. Which ended a few years ago after AOL removed NNTP service. :-)”

“Of course the cracks about September started when NSF net connected all the universities, and then when UUNET went commercial it was the never ending September.”

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