September that never ended

   All  time  since  September  1993. One of the seasonal rhythms of the
   Usenet  used  to  be  the annual September influx of clueless newbies
   who,  lacking  any  sense of {netiquette}, made a general nuisance of
   themselves.  This  coincided  with  people  starting college, getting
   their  first  internet accounts, and plunging in without bothering to
   learn  what  was acceptable. These relatively small drafts of newbies
   could  be assimilated within a few months. But in September 1993, AOL
   users  became  able  to  post  to  Usenet,  nearly  overwhelming  the
   old-timers'  capacity to acculturate them; to those who nostalgically
   recall the period before, this triggered an inexorable decline in the
   quality  of  discussions  on  newsgroups. Syn. eternal September. See
   also {AOL!}.

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {AOL!}]