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On 3/4/2014 6:25 PM, John Lewis wrote:
> MetalGuru <inv...@chainmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/3/2014 9:36 PM, John Lewis wrote:
>>> 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...

Heh, Murphy's (?) Law at play here - I've been with eternal september 
since the motzarella days and could count on the fingers of one hand the 
number of times their nntp server went down temporarily and yesterday 
was one of those times.  Never had a need to go to their web site once 
my account was created so I can't vouch for it, but it seems to be down 
right now indeed.

Didn't know giganews offered text only accounts, this whole enchilada 
makes a bit more sense now but I still think it's not worth the extra 
cash, however little, all things considered.