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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <keb5j3$m06$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2013-01-30, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
>> In article <ke91fv$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.

My use of Email (although not much fidonet) predates AOL as well.
I still throw anything from an AOL address in the trahs without
even seeing it.

bill

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