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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>September that never ended</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="senior-bit.html" title="senior bit"/><link rel="next" href="server.html" title="server"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">September that never ended</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="senior-bit.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="server.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="September-that-never-ended"/><dt xmlns="" id="September-that-never-ended"><b>September that never ended</b></dt></dt><dd><p> All time since September 1993. One of the seasonal rhythms of the
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Usenet used to be the annual September influx of clueless newbies who,
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lacking any sense of <a href="../N/netiquette.html"><i class="glossterm">netiquette</i></a>, made a general
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nuisance of themselves. This coincided with people starting college,
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getting their first internet accounts, and plunging in without bothering to
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learn what was acceptable. These relatively small drafts of newbies could
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be assimilated within a few months. But in September 1993, AOL users
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became able to post to Usenet, nearly overwhelming the old-timers' capacity
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to acculturate them; to those who nostalgically recall the period before,
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this triggered an inexorable decline in the quality of discussions on
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newsgroups. Syn. <span class="firstterm">eternal
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September</span>. See also <a href="../A/AOL-.html"><i class="glossterm">AOL!</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="senior-bit.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="server.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">senior bit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> server</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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