And then it became the Christmas debacle because 15 year olds with a new
computer and a boom box suddenly would inhabit this newsgroup with an
attitude and nearly zip in knowledge other than to press play.

What goes around comes around. What's new? g

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Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio

"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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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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