never ending September

the never ending September

1. Alternative form of never-ending September.
   • 1998 April 8, Sean Ennis, “Were^[sic] are all the swingers.”, in man.general‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     ] I was wondering if there were any swingers in Manitoba? And specifically
     ] Winnipeg?
     They were driven off during the first part of the never ending September of 1993, but inter-provincial flame wars. Now that the problem has been solved (i.e. the filtering of outside posts to Manitoba _only_ news groups), there is no one left.

   • 1999 August 12, Paul Sweeney, “There is no Cabal”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     > What is the absolutely earliest documented use of this phrase? Who really
     > started it?
     >
     I'm pretty sure this goes back to those Halcyon days before The Great Renaming, many moons before the never ending September that we now live in. Strange days indeed were these for those that lived through them.

   • 2000 May 18, Jim Manson, “Nadeau-Incompetent/Bad Psychologists;”, in alt.support.attn-deficit‎^[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     >Another newbie who just got his computer from WalMart; hasn't
     >learned to read the author address to discern who posted what.
     >Have you no brain?
     Another example of the never ending September.

   • 2000 October 12, Stuart Millington, “argy bargy”, in freeserve.webspace.authoring‎^[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     Back when I first started using USENET, you couldn't use it unless you were 18+ : no dial-up accounts then, only students, professors and corporate types. The invasion of the dial-up accounts in the 90's and the comparisons with the new terms at Uni's/Colleges - forming the basis of "the never ending September" phrase :-(

   • 2001 February 26, Lemming, “CABLE BOX DESCRAMBLER PLANS ((LEGAL)),.,.,,.,,,,,,. 7063”, in alt.support.stop-smoking‎^[5] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     Anyway, even if these are wrong, I get the gist. Basically you are saying you like it when people quote 130 lines of SPAM to make an unfunny one-line remark. I guess it's pointless to ask if you remember the never ending September of 1993[1]. […] [1] The September 1993 is described here: - […]

   • 2003 July 9, Paul Tomblin, “Lightspeed Battery Box Warning”, in rec.aviation.owning‎^[6] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     Bullshit. Nobody who was using Usenet in 1980 does TOFU posting. Up until the never ending September of 1993, anybody who didn't learn to trim their quoted text would have been hounded off of any reasonable newsgroup.

   • 2004 August 2, Andrew Gideon, “Terror in the skies, Again?”, in rec.aviation.piloting‎^[7] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     > It was the influx of AOL and then At Home newbies sometime around 1993
     > or so that seemed to presage usenet's diminishing signal to noise
     > ratio.
     The "never ending September", or some such. If I recall correctly, Compuserve was the first of the kiddie services to connect.

   • 2006 January 17, dataangel@aol.com, “Book Hungry Fan Wants Kidult Fantasy To Read”, in alt.creative.writing‎^[8] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     Dear Group, *wanders into the never ending September* […]

   • 2007 November 15, Floyd L. Davidson, “I Need Some Help With X-Window System”, in alt.os.linux.slackware‎^[9] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     And there were of course cracks about what happens when "just anyone" gets access. And on Usenet it was easily noticed that every September there was a huge influx of newbies who knew nothing (and also that as soon as the Christmas break began there was virtually no traffic at all for a couple weeks.) Next it was "The Well". Those with edu domains teased them. Then it was AOL and the "never ending September". You get the idea... :-)

   • 2008 April 1, Chris H, “Seeking photos.....”, in alt.journalism.photo‎^[10] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     OTOH because there are so many idiots on the net these days and so many expect everything for free some of the old hands (and a lot of the plain arse holes) on here just react without giving the benefit of the doubt. 10-15 years ago (before AOL and the never ending September) the net was a much nicer place. Everyone was presumed innocent first. Now they are assumed guilty.

   • 2008 October 13, Grand Poopa, “Re: ACORN to Obama”, in misc.news.internet.discuss‎^[11] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     Gee whiz, I thot AOL dropped usenet^[sic] access! The never ending September continues!

   • 2008 November 26, Onideus Mad Hatter, “SASSy Bitches Lost Their Home”, in alt.flame‎^[12] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     It's too bad Cuomo doesn't go after Google, the WebTV interface of Usenet really is the last bastion of the "never ending September".

   • 2009 February 25, Andreas Kohlbach, “Re: The C64 is crap - Discuss!!!”, in comp.sys.sinclair‎^[13] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     > We do this in May? I thought it was August.
     I thought one refers to the never ending September. Which ended a few years ago after AOL removed NNTP service. :-)

   • 2012 July 4, Floyd L. Davidson, “First images of Nikon D600 with 24 MP FX sensor”, in rec.photo.digital‎^[14] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     Of course the cracks about September started when NSF net connected all the universities, and then when UUNET went commercial it was the never ending September.