Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 15:44:40 -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 04/09/02 03:34PM
> >> 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).
> >>
>
> MW> This may come as a shock, but I suspect there may be a number of
>people on
> MW> this list who haven't the foggiest idea what you said.
>
>"striptags" is a small program which removes all tags from HTML text. It =
does a
>fair-to-poor job of converting HTML into readable plain text, but its =
usable
>on simple HTML (such as that generated by many mail programs).

Actually I'm refering to most of your original message <g>.
Great thing about computer standards is that if you don't like one, =
there's always another one.

mjw

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