Matthew Hunter wrote: >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...) > > > I understood "part of it" to imply that I was part of the problem. My mistake. N.B. The September That Never Ended was in 1993, but it was also caused by AOLers entering Usenet. I'm quite proud to have never used AOL. Jose -- Jose Marquez \ There are 10 types of people in jhereg69 at earthlink.net \ the world: those who understand http://home.earthlink.net/~jhereg69 \ binary, and those who don't.