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

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From: David Lamb
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:49

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On 22/03/2013 8:34 PM, John Lewis wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:14:07 +0400, "Andrew Rybenkov"
> <aryb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>
> 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 and
> am not inclined to dig further, maye you could elucidate?
>
> John Lewis
>

It's a UTF encoding of his answer, which was a bunch of examples of 
Russian comments in Cyrillic. Thunderbird could handle it, but, sorry, 
Andrew, USENET is supposed to be ASCII only.

I think I figured out which one was 'F** GOG, get it from Steam"

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