[Info-vax] [OT] Eternal September, was: Re: backups and compaction or nocompaction might be better

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-01-30, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> In article <ke91fv$ap$1 at dont-email.me>,
>  Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>
>> On 2013-01-29, pcoviello at gmail.com <pcoviello at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > ok first what is endless september?
>> >
>> 
>> It's a play on a name for a service called Eternal September which is a
>> free NNTP service. The implicit suggestion from Hoff was that you should
>> switch from using Google Groups (which is just a very poorly written web
>> based Usenet client) to using a real Usenet client.
>
> Background to the name "Eternal September":
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
>

AOL has a lot to answer for, not only for what they did, but also because
they were the first major commercial organisation to do so and so they set
the de facto standard for what many other commercial newcomers considered
to be acceptable. :-(

I started out with standalone BBS boards in the early 1980s as a teenage
kid, before moving to FidoNet based systems when they became established
and then onto systems with various Internet based interfaces so I can
clearly remember the time before AOL and what happened when AOL let their
customers loose.

Simon.

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