Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 20:24:13 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Email & HTML & 1st Friday Meeting
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 09:15 AM 04/09/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > shofmann at mindspring.com 04/08/02 11:46PM >>>
>
> >>>>>> "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.
>
>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.

For instance, me.

Candy