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On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:42:16 -0500, MetalGuru <inv...@chainmail.com>
wrote:

>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.
>

I autopay $3 per month for my Giganews usenet text feed and it has
proved to be exceptionally reliable. Not worth the hassle of change. 

Just now, I tried logging in to 'www.eternal-september.org'.  Seems to
be dead

"Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.eternal-september.org"

Thanks for the suggestion, but..... "Free" sometimes has its price....
Sadly, life is too short for this sort of nonsense...

John Lewis