Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 22:34:07 -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>

> candymadigan at mindspring.com 04/09/02 08:24PM >>>
>
>>At 09:15 AM 04/09/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>> > 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.
>
>For instance, me.

Candy,

I'm shocked, just shocked.  I bet you also don't hand calibrate the spark =
plugs in your car.  And how is your arm these days - gotta hand crank the =
old engine too, you know . . . <g>

mjw

>
>Candy
>