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Re: A GOG DRM-free release is announced on Steam :-) :-)

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From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 04:47
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:35:12 +0900, Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> wrote:

>john...@frontier.com (John Lewis) writes:
>> I'm sure this chunk of gibberish (that I have truncated) has some
>> code-related meaning, but since I am using a text-only newsreader
>
>FWIW, his post displays fine in this text-only newsreader...
>
>I imagine the real issue is that your newsreader doesn't grok MIME, or
>can't handle UTF-8.
>
>-miles

Sorry but all attempts thus far are wrong..

It's simply Base 64 encoding.

I'm not sure how it got there, and that could be because I've
killfiled most of the people in this newsgroup with a 2-digit IQ
already and could be missing a post (I'm keeping John around for
entertainment value, if anyone wondered).

If you take the characters and Base64 unencode to a readable format of
choice, it is simply:

"On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:19:52 +0400, John Lewis
<john...@frontier.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:01:18 +0400, "Andrew Rybenkov"
> <aryb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:41:50 +0400, John Lewis <john...@frontier.com> wrote:
>>
>>> BTW, you can indeed now preorder the game on GOG.... DRM-free, of
>>> co"


Like I said I don't know how that snippet got there but I think John
confused himself as usual.

Jeezus H Fuck, am I really the only one here who recognized that
instantly?  We need to get you guys some technical skills.  :)
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Subject: Re: A GOG DRM-free release is announced on Steam :-) :-)
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