To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Email & HTML & 1st Friday Meeting
From: shofmann at mindspring.com (Scott Hofmann)
Date: 08 Apr 2002 23:46:46 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>>>>> "KFL" == Keith F Lynch <kfl at keithlynch.net> writes:

 KFL> Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com> wrote:
 >> Uh.  Keith.  I asked you how to un-HTML a message I was trying to
 >> forward and when you didn't reply, I just gave up.

 KFL> I apologize for not replying.  My answer is that I don't know what
 KFL> software you have available, nor how to operate it.  Your question
 KFL> may be answered by the documentation for your software, or by the
 KFL> appropriate section of http://www.expita.com/nomime.html

 KFL> In a standard text editor such as emacs or vi, you can delete
 KFL> all text which begins with a left-angle-bracket and ends with a
 KFL> right-angle bracket.  That's not perfect, but it's good enough.

If you're working on a system which supports PERL (pretty much all unix-like
systems such as linux, and Windows but with some considerable hacking) you can
use the handy-dandy "striptags" script available at
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/3472/striptags.txt. A google for
"striptags" turned up several other versions in other languages (such as Java
and Python).

I realize this doesn't help the people who can't install software on the
machines they send mail from, but perhaps it (or something like it) can be
helpful elsewhere.

scott

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J. Scott Hofmann                      http://cougar.kniggets.org
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