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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by webmaven on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:08AM (#22318789)
That's a bit ahistorical. The "September that never ended"[0] (aka "Eternal September") was in 1993, the Canter and Siegel Usenet spam[1] was sent the following April. The DejaNews acquisition[2] wan't until 2001.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups

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