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Default Post courtesies was Req: cooking rutabaga in micro

sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:18:03 -0600, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
> > Ophelia wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> > >
> > > Thanks for that.

> >
> > Welcome! Some of the other stuff suggested to me was like hitting a
> > knat with a nuke from high orbit. I just wanted a simple and easy
> > to use program that was free. My impression is several have at
> > least looked at the other suggested programs and given up in
> > disgust over them being a total PITA to figure out and setup.
> >
> > I had XanaNews up and running in less than 10 minutes. Over the
> > next 2-3 days I added frills like colorized bits to show threads I
> > was in and such but the work was minimal to get it running. The
> > frills are nice, but it works fine without them right away on
> > default.
> >

> Aha, so it's not just me. I've looked at other news readers that have
> been suggested and decided I wasn't techie enough to run them... but
> if your impression is the same, it probably wasn't me after all - it
> was the program. Can you choose how many panes you want (I use the
> single pane view)?


Yes, and size them. I like a preview pane of the titles and a wider
one with the message i am viewing. Drag and shift sizes as you like.


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