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On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:05:14 -0500, wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:24:28 +1100, Bruce >
>wrote:
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>>On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:14:43 -0600, Hank Rogers >
>>wrote:
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>>>Bruce wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:41:40 -0500,
wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:12:18 -0800 (PST), dsi1
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 9:02:47 AM UTC-10, Nancy2 wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 8:22:32 PM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 12:26:29 -0800 (PST), Nancy2 wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You have taken a position with no knowledg of the small appliance we are talking about, and
>>>>>>>>> that position is one of ignorance about that appliance, and now are too stubborn to quit
>>>>>>>>> and say you were mistaken. It's a sorry position.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm not mistaken at all. My mother used to have an egg cooker, as I
>>>>>>>> implied in a previous post. I had used it a couple times and was
>>>>>>>> glad when I accidentally dropped it on the floor and broke it. As
>>>>>>>> it wasn't taking up valuable counter space and I didn't have to drag
>>>>>>>> it out of the cupboard when she needed it. Using the egg cooker is
>>>>>>>> no more convenient than using a pan. And the pan is infinitely more
>>>>>>>> useful.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think we can call this argument over, if not a truce.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -sw
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll agree to a truce, with a couple final points: it takes a lot more water to boil eggs on top the stove, and a pot to do it with takes up more space in a cupboard than an egg cooker. Second, it takes a lot more energy to boil a pot of water than it does for a cooker to do its thing.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There, I'm finished. ;-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> N.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you had an automatic rice cooker you could probably do the same thing. Use a steamer basket and the same amount of water. It is unfortunate that my daughter threw out my beautiful rice cooker else I would be steaming eggs at this very moment.
>>>>>
>>>>> I much prefer an ordinary pot for cooking rice... and I can use the
>>>>> same pot to boil eggs, and I do... that 2 qt Farberware pot is the
>>>>> only pot that lives on my stove... that one pot is used to cook many
>>>>> other things.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, I can't only read a small portion of your's and nancy2's posts...
>>>>> one day yoose may fix your word wrap... how ironic that yoose are
>>>>> touting automatic cookery.
>>>>
>>>> Wait until you see a post by Greg Morrow, where he quotes an entire
>>>> article with endless lines. Screen pollution.
>>>>
>>>
>>>It's probably yoose and Popeye's software. I don't have a problem
>>>reading them. See if yoose can find a setting to wrap the lines instead
>>>of having to rely on other people to compose just for yoose.

>>
>>It's Google Group's fault. It uses a non standard line length, or no
>>line length at all, more likely.
>>
>>I can press a key to make it wrap, so it doesn't run off the screen,
>>but you're still looking at lines that are the width of your entire
>>screen.

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>
>Which key?


In Forte Agent it's the letter O key. It helps a bit when you're
reading their posts, but not when you're replying to them.

>It's essentially only those two whose tying goes off the screen, most
>everyone else wraps perfectly.


Yes, it's only the Google Groups users. Google Groups does a lot more
wrong.