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Scott Dorsey
 
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Don Cooper wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:

Yeah, but that change took place around 1996, the Era of the Eternal
September.


What happened then Scott? I'm not familiar with the term.


Usenet went to hell, because everybody and his brother discovered the web
and decided they really needed internet access.

In the eighties and nineties, there would be a huge influx of clueless bozos
on Usenet every September, when the new Freshman classes came in and
discovered the net. When the whole thing was opened up in the late nineties,
it was like a September that never ended.
--scott


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