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"Madame Mim" <mad.mim@S.P.A.M.bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:vgx5e.4244$5F3.3012@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> I hope you didn't think that I was finding you offensive. I know my post
> couldn't really be construed as supportive, but it definitely wasn't meant
> as an attack.
>
> It probably helps if you know that Mrs Muts has shown pro-piracy (or maybe
I
> just mean a lack of anti-piracy) leanings in the past, when the
traditional
> philosophy around here is to discourage any cracking of The Sims. I
remember
> the days when we would all leap to attack anyone who even suggested that
> they might like a no-cd crack because it was tantamount to them admitting
> that their game was a pirated copy.
But but but...............you have to have the real game to use the no-cd
crack

I used them for years, until with Sims2 it made building
impossible. Now I have my game mounted on a virtual drive...............but
I still have to have the full game to use the mounting procedure.
> Your answer was, in fact, a traditional joke around here, and I just
assumed
> that you were a long time lurker who'd had the serendipity to be the first
> reader of alphaG's post.
>
> As for the subject/theme of this newsgroup, we don't have one. How can a
> group that first started congregating in an usurped genealogy newsgroup
> demand that posts stay on topic? If we had a constitution around here I'm
> sure that would be against it.
>
> ;')
>
> --
> Morituri Nolumus Mori
>
> MM
But still some people get upset with all the off topic stuff here.
Not me, I love it, lol.
..uk...
> > I honestly did not mean to offend anyone, indeed I have noted those sort
> > of responses before on this forum when posters ask for cracks or key
> > codes.
> > Plus I NEVER email anyone I don't know. If the question was asked in a
> > newsgroup, then it gets answered in a newsgroup. I realise this one is
> > usually used for telling stories, and not loaded with technical
> > requests, but the whole point of NG's is so that everyone can see the
> > answers and benefit?
> >
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> > I was also trying in a way to make jokes as I realise that lots of you
> > in this NG have been posting for a while, and know each other well. It's
> > sometimes hard for newbies to know where to put in their twopennyworth
> > when it sometimes looks rather cliquey. If I'm not wanted, then I'll
> > unsubscribe.
> > (I do take part in all the Outlook Express newsgroups (and others) as an
> > MVP - see my signature. But those are for problems with OE/IE/Windows.
> >
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpintro )
> >
> > --
> > Kath Adams
> > MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)
> >
> > Madame Mim wrote:
> > > I think that Rainbow's post was very appropriate - a effortless and
> > > glib answer for a lazy and cheeky question.
> > >
> > >
> > > "noname" <hip_ster@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:nVk5e.31400$JL2.988819@twister.southeast.rr.com...
> > >>
> > >> "Madame Mim" <mad.mim@S.P.A.M.bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> > >> news:VJi5e.3327$5F3.345@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > >>> Besides which I really dislike these people that wander in and ask
> > >>> us to mail them something. It wasn't a question of where can I
> > >>> find, but rather -
> > >>> find and deliver to me the no cd crack. We are nobodies servants
> > >>> here, but people seem to think that we are some form of free shop.
> > >>> . .
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Posting a link to a crack would have been much more appropriate than
> > >> just "a crack".
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> noname
> >
>
>