never-ending September

• Never Ending September, never ending September, Never-Ending September, Neverending September, neverending September

See Eternal September. Coined by Dave Fischer in alt.folklore.computers: see the quotation.

the never-ending September

1. (Internet slang, historical) Synonym of Eternal September. [from 1994]
   • 1994 January 12, dave@gilly.cca.org [Dave Fischer], “Run! It's the Delphioids!”, in alt.folklore.computers‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 December 2022:

     Where is the Posting of Stupidity that has not been decried as Delphic by its replies of flamage? Where the poster that has not hurled back the branding reproach of "From: user@delphi.com" against the more Content-Free messages, as well as against the Never-Ending-September?^[sic]

   • 1994 March 1, Judge Elmo, “BRACE YOURSELVES NETTERS”, in rec.arts.comics.misc‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     Admittedly, AOL is a for-profit service, which selects toward older and wiser. Unfortunately, this also means the *kids* of soi-disant "older and wiser" types. It's probably not going to top the never-ending September of '93, but it's going to be irritating.

   • 1995 September 2, Lars Marowsky-Bree, “Announce: killfile 1.0 -- the ULTIMATE killfile”, in alt.culture.usenet‎^[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     This script is intended to be the _ULTIMATE_ killfile. UseNet^[sic] currently faces a severe problem: The never-ending September of 1994. It gets harder and harder every day to retrieve useful information from UseNet newsgroups. This script is intended to be the final answer in finishing off unwanted articles.

   • 1996 March 25, StarOwl, “moderation of alt.pagan”, in alt.pagan‎^[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     In the days before robomoderation, in the times before spam, in the era long-gone that preceeded^[sic] the never-ending September, and back before poor propogation was a net.wide problem, many of us developed a bad taste for moderated groups.

   • 1996 October 9, Riku Saikkonen, “Links to Resources for Education”, in alt.kids-talk‎^[5] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     (Sorry. I'm too tired. But the net would be a much better place without Njetscape, M$, or the never-ending September.)

   • 2011 January 12, MrSpook, “"Usenet is dead" - No It Isn't . . . But There Are Many Who Want To Murder It”, in alt.tv.star-trek.tos‎^[6] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     In actuality most oldbie Netters started celebrating, as having all the major ISPs dropping Usenet access would mean a potential end to the 'never-ending September' and would bring Usenet back to its original, non-n00b infested roots as well as obscure the binary froups from the general Joe Public, which would mean less attention from the RIAA and the MPAA.

   • 2013 March 18, Brian Morrison, “RFD: uk.radio.amateur.moderated”, in uk.net.news.config‎^[7] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     I think also that Usenet was a much more hostile place in general 20 years ago than it is now, there were a lot of people who resented the never-ending September aftermath because it upset their communities and flooded their groups with many clueless people, many of whom never appeared to learn anything.