On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 02:13:04 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 7:53:42 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>> On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 9:58:59 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> > On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 3:51:54 PM UTC-4, John Doe wrote:
>> > > I've been on USENET for 25 years.
>> > Is that all?
>> >
>> > I see you use Eternal September. I remember when Usenet actually was
>> > different in September, when all the college freshmen got their first
>> > accounts at their university and discovered Usenet.
>> >
>> > Cindy Hamilton
>> September was the month that AOL first offered Usenet access to the members of its service. The problem wasn't students, it was AOL users and after that, the influx of users with new internet access. Then came the spammers. Usenet has pretty much been ****ed up since then.
>
>AOL doesn't have anything to do with it. Universities had Usenet long before AOL
>was a gleam in Steve Case's eye.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

Before usenet we had BB = Bulletin Boards, it was novel and led to
usenet which was far better.