On 30 Oct 2010 22:54:53 GMT, Cheryl wrote:

> On Sat 30 Oct 2010 12:21:34a, notbob wrote in rec.food.cooking
> >:
>
>> See, Om. Here's another one. According to my read, and the way
>> a good newsreader attributes quotes of previous posters, this
>> entire article was written by Ed. But, it doesn't sound like a
>> single article written by a single author and the attributes at
>> the top show two peaple. This time, it's Ed who is using a
>> microsoft windows newsreader, which is no doubt incorrectly
>> configured to not assign different attributes to text from each
>> different poster. My newsreader works just fine and in
>> accordance with usenet standards.
>
> Windows Live Mail on Windows 7 worked just fine as a newsreader up
> until an update was offered (this week) and it upgraded to Live Mail
> 2011. I haven't found a way to add quoted text characters like you
> normally can add so I had to ditch it. I like xnews but I'm more
> familiar with the MS interfaces and I like the fact that it can spell
> check for me. I know xnews can, but I don't like to write my posts
> in an external app just to check my speeling. I'm a fast typer and
> make a lot of spelling mistakes not even related to speed, but just
> plain spelling errors. It's embarrassing.

just for the record, 40tude dialog has spell-checking (not sure if it's
internal or piggybacking off something else in the system).

your pal,
blake