On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:37:19PM -0500, Jose Marquez <jhereg69 at earthlink.net> wrote: > Matthew Hunter wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:19:34PM -0500, Jose Marquez > ><jhereg69 at earthlink.net> wrote: > >>Matthew Hunter wrote: > >>>I'm midly surprised that no one bothered to respond to the > >>>September That Never Ended part of my original message. Surely > >>>someone else here remembers that? > >>I don't know what the September That Never Ended refers to. > >I believe that makes you a part of it. > I believe you are mistaken. After some research I tried to avoid out of > laziness, I find that although unfamiliar with the jargon, I'm quite > familiar with the concept, having witnessed it again and again. I > started using the internet in 1994 on a BBS run by a much older friend > of mine. I was well schooled in netiquette (and the unix-like pro-line > user shell) well before I started college in 1997, and I thus never went > in for activities like those of the typical Septemberite. I will out of > courtesy not elaborate on my AOL antipathy. The September That Never Ended was in 1993. I rest my case. (Although I don't mean to imply anything negative as a result -- a number of perfectly nice people have appeared on the 'net since 1993...) -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp