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On 3/3/2014 9:36 PM, John Lewis wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:46:46 -0500, MetalGuru <inv...@chainmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 3/3/2014 2:50 PM, John Lewis wrote:
>>> unibalm <unibalm@csipga.zzzz> wrote:
>>>> john...@frontier.com (John Lewis) wrote:
>>>>> "Trimble Bracegirdle" wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Better play Dishonored or Thief 3: Dark Shadows.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey, little mouse/bunny,
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you buy the game... or just er, "borrow" it ?
>>>>
>>>> hi John.
>>>> So how's the retention on giganews?
>>>> heheh!
>>>
>>> Had a problem?
>>
>> No, but inquiring Trimble about "demos" (quote unquote, get it? wink
>> wink) is like a married man calling from a whorehouse chastising another
>> for cheating on his wife.
>>
>> Giganews is a paid **binary** usenet provider, why would you need such
>> service for text based newsgroups? I'm not accusing you of anything and
>> frankly I couldn't care less, just honestly curious.
>>
> Because my ISP gave up hosting usenet newsgroups a few years ago. I
> pay Giganews a very small sum each month to continue being on these
> comp.sys.ibm.pc.games........ "forums".
>
> BTW, if you ever tracked my history over the years, you would know
> very well indeed that I have NEVER EVER pirated a video game...

As I said I wasn't accusing you - or Trimble for that matter - of 
anything. I've been around these neck of woods for two decades and know 
your history very well.

But my question now is - why pay for a service when you can have 
something equivalent for free? Again, just curious. Eternal September 
(among others and no, Google groups doesn't count) is very reliable and 
carries pretty much everything except binary groups.