never ending september

Example Sentences

• ">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."