drake wrote:

Hi, please don't post in HTML in newsgroups... for one thing, some ISPs
filter out HTML in non-binary messages, guaranteeing that some won't see
your posts. For another, the same message in HTML (web language) is
much much larger than one in "ASCII" (plain text) and some people
outside the US/Canada do pay for their time online by the minute, by the
purchased unit, and/or amount of data downloaded.

If you *must* post on HTML, please be considerate enough to make your
text large enough to be readable. Thanks. Now, on to your problem.

I have just ordered Carl's starter, so what is your recommendations
for activating the starter.

Like Samartha said, follow the directions. (I remember making some
chile-cheese muffins with my sister-in-law once and modifying the
procedures given and ingredients, etc. She said when the failed project
was done, "you think it would have different if we'd followed the
directions?")

Don't be a 'starter mucker' and put in all kinds of fancy things. Just
flour and water.

Think about it. Did the Yukon or Gold Rush miners have room in the
backpacks for all those things, and did they prefer to muck about with
making bread or panning for gold?

B/