Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 09:15:51 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Email & HTML & 1st Friday Meeting
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> shofmann at mindspring.com 04/08/02 11:46PM >>>

>>>>>> "KFL" ==3D 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.

This may come as a shock, but I suspect there may be a number of people on =
this list who haven't the foggiest idea what you said.

mjw

>
>scott
>
>--
>J. Scott Hofmann                      http://cougar.kniggets.org
>mailto:shofmann at mindspring.com
>