Ah yes, I remember it well.

[swestrup]

It was once a tradition that every September the internet would be flooded with a new batch of idiots that would take several months to educate on how to communicate politely in an online environment. September 1993 was the September that Never Ended. Its hard to express just how distressing that event was to all of the old-core Internet denizens. It marked the beginning of the end for Usenet.