Re: THE PICK

> Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:
> [email protected] <user17124>
> wrote in news:[email protected]:
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>> Will Dockery <user3274> posted:
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>> [email protected] (NancyGene) wrote:
>> Will Dockery <user3274> posted:
>> [email protected] (NancyGene)
>> posted:
>> michaelmaleficapendragon@ wrote:
>> Will Dockery <user3274> posted:
>> MummyChunk wrote:
>> Will Dockery wrote:
>> 
>> I used Eternal-September and another locally based one provided
>> by Knology, a local cable TV company a decade or so ago.
>> 
>> They had USENET too?
>> 
>> Yes, Knology also provided Internet and email service, band in
>> there I also had a newsreader that connected to Usenet.
>> 
>> I was speaking to somebody yesterday about this and they told me
>> that the AOL once offered usenet access.
>> 
>> They said that a considerable amount of participants came from
>> there even before Google Groups.
>> 
>> Yes, I wasn't really involved in that earlier wave of Usenet
>> newsgroup users, j came in at the beginning of Google Groups.
>> 
>> Someone from one of the other groups here posted this about AOL
>> and the access to USENET that was provided to their members.
>> 
>> In September 1993, AOL added Usenet access to its features.
>> This is commonly referred to as the "Eternal September", as
>> Usenet's cycle of new users was previously dominated by smaller
>> numbers of college and university freshmen gaining access in
>> September and taking a few weeks to acclimate.
>> 
>> and this
>> 
>> Eternal September or the September that never ended was a
>> cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993
>> and early 1994, when Internet service providers began offering
>> Usenet access to many new users.  Before this, the only sudden
>> changes in the volume of new users of Usenet occurred each
>> September, when cohorts of university students would gain access
>> to it for the first time, in sync with the academic calendar.
>> 
>> The flood of new and generally inexperienced Internet users
>> directed to Usenet by commercial ISPs in 1993 and subsequent
>> years swamped the existing culture of those forums and their
>> ability to self-moderate and enforce existing norms. AOL began
>> their Usenet gateway service in March 1994, leading to a
>> constant stream of new users.  Hence, from the early Usenet
>> community point of view, the influx of new users that began in
>> September 1993 appeared to be endless.
>> 
>> History
>> 
>> During the 1980s and early 1990s, Usenet and the Internet were
>> generally the domain of dedicated computer professionals and
>> hobbyists; new users joined slowly, in small numbers, and
>> learned to observe the social conventions of online interaction
>> without having much of an impact on the experienced users.
>> 
>> The only exception to this was September of every year, when
>> large numbers of first-year university students gained access to
>> the Internet and Usenet through their university campuses. These
>> large groups of new users who had not yet learned online
>> etiquette created a nuisance for the experienced users, who came
>> to dread September every year.
>> 
>> However, each year the tide of new users would eventually abate,
>> as everyone learned to get along and assimilate into existing
>> communities, or found the place not to their liking and quit
>> using it. But once ISPs such as AOL made affordable Internet
>> access widely available for home users (in particular, offering
>> Usenet access as a sign-on service, such as AOL Mail), a
>> continuous influx of new users began, making it feel like it was
>> always "September" to the more experienced users.
>> 
>> The full phrase appears to have evolved over a series of months
>> on two separate alt.folklore newsgroups where a number of
>> threads exist lamenting what they saw as an increase in
>> low-quality posts across various newsgroups. Several members of
>> the newsgroups referenced aspects of the "September" issue,
>> typically in a joking manner.
>> 
>> In a thread on January 8, 1994, Joel Furr cross-posted asking
>> "Is it just me, or has Delphi unleashed a staggering amount of
>> weirdos on the net?", which garnered a reply from Karl Reinsch
>> "Of course it's perpetually September for Delphi users, isn't
>> it?"  The day before, Furr had also posted the same message to
>> alt.folklore.urban, where David Fischer responded with a joke
>> call-to-action where he referred to the increasing numbers of
>> Delphi users as the "Never-Ending-September".  Fischer also
>> replied to a different thread on January 25, 1994, in
>> alt.folklore.computers saying, "It's moot now. September 1993
>> will go down in net history as the September that never ended."
>> This quote has been suggested to have been the first reference.
>> 
>> Possibly the first use of the "Eternal September" phrase was a
>> newsgroup post by John William Chambless in February 1994. He
>> posted a rant including some excerpts of low-quality articles he
>> found in one of his newsgroups that day, but titled the post
>> "The Eternal September".
>> 
>> It came from one of the private groups here, in this morning’s
>> discussion about old USENET groups. I copied it from a post
>> there, and that post did not say it was from Wikipedia.
>> 
>> So yes, the source is now clear. Some people share information,
>> and some people prefer to perform over it. Every group has its
>> little traditions.  Thanks for the link NancyGene! 😽
>> 
>> These private groups sound interesting, MummyChunk.
>> 
>> How are those found on JLA Forums?
>> 
>> Chunk is just trying to hide his
>> 
>> His?
>> 
>> 
>> Chunk also posts suggestive pictures of women in his posts to other
>> groups.  He promotes JLA Forums "as if he owns it."
>> 
>> So you're stalking MummyChunk now, NancyGene?
>> 
>> No surprise, there.
>> 
>> NancyGene's just interested in finding out who she's interacting with,
>> Donkey.
>> 
>> Netiquette suggests that Usenet members introduce themselves to the
>> groups they join, and provide a little background information about
>> themselves.
>> 
>> MummyChunk has provided no such information, so others will inevitably
>> create their own MummyChunk bios based on their interactions with
>> him/her here.
>> 
>> Much the same way that you and the Dunce have spent years speculating
>> about the sex of NancyGene, and whether she is one or more
>> individuals.
>> 
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> 
> I'm pretty sure Dreckweasel has started stalking MC, just he's been
> trying to do for years to NG and also what he did with Jim Senetto.
> 
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> Douchebag!
> 
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> you, because your poems don't have a literary basis, because you're
> functionally illiterate and haven't got a clue as to what a poem is." -
> Little Willie Douchebag gets another asskicking from Pendragon




Stalking's what Donkeys do best. 


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