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zebee@lute.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU (Zebee Johnstone) wrote:

>On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 01:40:52 GMT, Ian Galbraith wrote:
>>
>>I think you've misunderstood me. The quote is from the TV series B5, and I
>>was referring to the fact that we're obviously seeing all the new Uni
>>students come onto the Usenet without a clue and behaving like idiots. I
>>know Usenet is a strictly text based medium and HTML only increases
>>bandwidth to no good effect.
>
>"The endless september" is the name given to it :)

 ... due to the sudden influx of american students at the biginning of
their school year ... around about September.

>It's not uni students anymore.  It's everyone who buys "the internet"
>when they get a new PC.  Who thinks the web is the net, who
>is using software with braindead defaults.

And then there are those who use Web TV!

>People who have no clue that this is a shared resource, but see
>it as anything else on their PC, something they can do what
>they want with.  Same as pirate software really.
>
>Those who do own the resources will eventually have to get rather
>more agressive..  I hope.

I'm armed. BFG anyone?

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