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Meaning of Never-Ending September | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Synonym of Eternal September.
    Internet, historical
  2. Alternative letter-case form of never-ending September.
    alt-of

Examples

“Where is the Posting of Stupidity that has not been decried as Delphic by its replies of flamage? Where the poster that has not hurled back the branding reproach of "From: user@delphi.com" against the more Content-Free messages, as well as against the Never-Ending-September?^([sic])”
“Admittedly, AOL is a for-profit service, which selects toward older and wiser. Unfortunately, this also means the *kids* of soi-disant "older and wiser" types. It's probably not going to top the never-ending September of '93, but it's going to be irritating.”
“This script is intended to be the _ULTIMATE_ killfile. UseNet^([sic]) currently faces a severe problem: The never-ending September of 1994. It gets harder and harder every day to retrieve useful information from UseNet newsgroups. This script is intended to be the final answer in finishing off unwanted articles.”
“In the days before robomoderation, in the times before spam, in the era long-gone that preceeded^([sic]) the never-ending September, and back before poor propogation was a net.wide problem, many of us developed a bad taste for moderated groups.”
“(Sorry. I'm too tired. But the net would be a much better place without Njetscape, M$, or the never-ending September.)”
“In actuality most oldbie Netters started celebrating, as having all the major ISPs dropping Usenet access would mean a potential end to the 'never-ending September' and would bring Usenet back to its original, non-n00b infested roots as well as obscure the binary froups from the general Joe Public, which would mean less attention from the RIAA and the MPAA.”
“I think also that Usenet was a much more hostile place in general 20 years ago than it is now, there were a lot of people who resented the never-ending September aftermath because it upset their communities and flooded their groups with many clueless people, many of whom never appeared to learn anything.”
“> And, maybe, some of the more..shall we say...virulent posters will be back > in class giving their teachers a hard time (sorry, teachers!!!). Once upon a time, that might have been true. Nowadays, alas, we are in the "Never-Ending September" era of Computers with Modems as Appliances, rather than rarified devices used only by the deserving....”
“Or do you just not know what a "hard copy" is? > Posted via CNET Help.com > http://www.help.com/ Oh, I guess that explains it. It's The Never-Ending September twice over.”
“The resulting influx of clueless amateur astronomers who spend their time solar-flaring other astronomers, "Me too!"ing in astrophysics conversations, looking for the latest zero-day telescope warez, and generally making a nuisance of themselves will rapidly innundate TelescopeNet. This will be referred to for the rest of time as "The Never-Ending September".”
“>> And why don't you respect the difference between an obvious >> idiot and an obvious troll? > >Arturo debates both, now and then. What can I say? Sometimes I feel nostalgic for my early years in Usenet, just before the Never-Ending September, when I was a active participant in alt.atheism.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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