Re: THE PICK

> HarryLime wrote:
> 
>> Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:
>> [email protected] <user17124>
>> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Will Dockery <user3274> posted:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [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.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> https://postimg.cc/gallery/kCYxtNS
>> 
>> Douchebag!
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> "The fact that it doesn't apply to the poem is of little consequence to
>> 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.




Well, stalking and nose-picking, that is. 


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