"cshenk" > wrote in message
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> biig wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>>
>> >
>> > And you haven't seen nothing yet if you think I'm nit-picking. This
>> > is NOT nit-picking. It is a major breach of etiquette tghat is
>> > certainly not limited to my personal expectations. Ask Paul M.
>> > Cook for some defensive tips - you'll need... something. He's not
>> > very good at it, but maybe you can come up with better, lame
>> > excuses other than being ignorant.
>> >
>> > -sw
>>
>> Whatever....Do your worst....Sharon
>
> Hi Sharon,
>
> If you want something that works well and feels like OE mostly but has
> some frills, take a look at XanaNews. It's freeware (legal to download
> and run in all countries). I added it here as I upgraded computers and
> the newer OS had Livemail (WIN7) which doesn't add the '>' markers and
> was driving me batty.
>
> I kept my newsgroup feed in 'Livemail' and put in a dual feed to
> XanaNews as I tested it all out. I even posted here for some to check
> and everyone was happy though it tends to add a space between '> >'
> markers as you will see above. Once i was happy, I removed the
> newsgroup feed from 'LiveMail' (which I still use for regular email)
> and use this for my newsgroup setups.
>
> XanaNews has lots of frills I haven't setup but it worked right away in
> default mode for everything I really needed. It didn't have a
> 'learning curve' like so many of the other programs that have probably
> been suggested to you (some of which I never could get setup right and
> I'm a fairly geeky sort).
>
> If you would like to try something to shut these guys up, my suggestion
> would be to google for XanaNews, install it, and leave your normal
> feeds exactly where they are as you play with adding a group to the new
> software and see if you like it. You just enter your existing feed site
> to XanaNews and add 1 or 2 groups. If you are geeky, you can download
> just the most recent 500 or so messages but by default it will grab all
> at your access site's archives which can take a little time. When that
> is done, go to tools and message base management and the default will
> allow you to wipe anything over 7 days old.
>
> The one thing XanaNews doesn't have is the ability to just tap the
> 'delete' key when viewing a message. It has a different system there
> that can do it but its not as easy. It does have a better system for
> removing posts from folks you do not want to see again (I love the
> name, 'Bozo Bin').

Hi Carol. I am lucky in that my win7 is an early version and i don't have
a problem with WLM. I have saved your post in case I have to upgrade or
get a new version.

Thanks for that.

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