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    From Sumireko Usami@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 16 11:13:07 2021
    XPost: alt.folklore.computers

    Saturday (January 16) is September 10000, 1993.

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  • From Niklas Karlsson@21:1/5 to Sumireko Usami on Sat Jan 16 11:39:31 2021
    XPost: alt.folklore.computers

    On 2021-01-16, Sumireko Usami <usasumi3hu@gmail.com> wrote:
    Saturday (January 16) is September 10000, 1993.

    Didn't Eternal September end when AOL withdrew its Usenet support? 2005,
    IIRC.

    Niklas
    --
    For a time, I wrote data analysis code in C on VMS. I drank a lot of
    tequila during that time.
    -- Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes in asr

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  • From Sumireko Usami@21:1/5 to Niklas Karlsson on Sat Jan 16 13:27:06 2021
    XPost: alt.folklore.computers

    On 2021-01-16 12:39, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
    On 2021-01-16, Sumireko Usami <usasumi3hu@gmail.com> wrote:
    Saturday (January 16) is September 10000, 1993.

    Didn't Eternal September end when AOL withdrew its Usenet support? 2005, IIRC.

    Niklas


    Hush

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  • From Jason Evans@21:1/5 to Niklas Karlsson on Thu Jan 21 11:35:59 2021
    XPost: alt.folklore.computers

    On 1/16/21 12:39 PM, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
    On 2021-01-16, Sumireko Usami <usasumi3hu@gmail.com> wrote:
    Saturday (January 16) is September 10000, 1993.

    Didn't Eternal September end when AOL withdrew its Usenet support? 2005, IIRC.

    Niklas


    One could argue that it ended when all of the major ISPs stopped
    carrying Usenet as a free service. After that there were only 3 types on
    users on Usenet.

    1. People who are actually here for conversation
    2. Spammers
    3. Binary downloaders.

    OK, maybe 4 types. The last are the trolls who still linger, add
    nothing to the conversation, and only try to cause trouble. Thankfully,
    those are getting more and more rare.

    Of course, you could also argue that the Eternal September will continue
    as long as Google Groups is still around.
    __
    JE

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  • From Rink@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 2 13:02:32 2021
    XPost: alt.folklore.computers

    Op 21-1-2021 om 11:35 schreef Jason Evans:
    On 1/16/21 12:39 PM, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
    On 2021-01-16, Sumireko Usami <usasumi3hu@gmail.com> wrote:
    Saturday (January 16) is September 10000, 1993.

    Didn't Eternal September end when AOL withdrew its Usenet support? 2005,
    IIRC.
    Niklas


    One could argue that it ended when all of the major ISPs stopped
    carrying Usenet as a free service. After that there were only 3 types on users on Usenet.

    1. People who are actually here for conversation
    2. Spammers
    3. Binary downloaders.

    OK, maybe 4 types.  The last are the trolls who still linger, add
    nothing to the conversation, and only try to cause trouble. Thankfully,
    those are getting more and more rare.

    Of course, you could also argue that the Eternal September will continue
    as long as Google Groups is still around.
    __
    JE


    Eternal September ends when there are only in September
    new Usenet users and nobody starts in another month.
    That will never happen, because nowadays it are not the
    schools or universities where people start using Usenet.

    So Eternal September ends when all Usenet Newsservers
    are shut down.
    I think it will take "some" years before that happens.

    Rink

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