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On 11/14/2012 2:02 AM, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:

> On the other hand finding and configuring a newsreader
> for someone whose never done it before, as you recommend,
> is a major time consumer.

Use a mail/news program such as Thunderbird and the newsreader comes for 
free. Setting up a gmane account with Thunderbird was, as I remember 
rather easy, easier than setting up a mail account.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy