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

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From: john... John Lewis
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:45
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:54:33 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
<rstow...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:21:32 -0400, Mike S. <Mik...@nowhere.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:10:51 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
>><rstow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>The big mystery here for me, is that I never even saw the message that
>>>John was referring to (I just saw the Base64 snippet he posted and
>>>converted it).  
>>>
>>>Apparently there was a followup by Andrew in response to John's
>>>request for quoted Russian comments?
>>>
>>>I would say my usenet server somehow dropped it, but John is using the
>>>same provider I am.
>>
>>I never saw it either. I am just assuming John's ancient news reader
>>has something to do with it.
>
>Hmm.  Possible.


Andrew has not yet replied to my request for the URL references to the
anti-GOG Russian user-comments on the Eador Steam pages, but there is
always hope. And if the reply got lost, maybe he might consider
posting it again?

As far as decoding anything other than plain-text on these newsgroups
I have no interest. There was a time long since past ( thank goodness)
that some posters used to gobble many pages of posting by
binary-to-text encoding (of game patches, or whatever)  on these
newsgroups instead of posting to the appropriate binary newsgroup....
and quite a few of these posters continued to gobble bandwidth
(precious at that time) on text-only newsgroups regardless of repeated
requests to refrain.

These newsgroups are still intended for text-only communication, so I
have zero interest on upgrading (or adjusting) my usenet newsreader to
read anything other than plain-text on these groups. My antique usenet
newsreader has served me with impeccable reliability over the years.

Many apologies for involuntarily stimulating a long off-topic
under-thread here.

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