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Subject: Re: e-mail !!!!= HTML \:-|
From: Brian Hatch <bri @ ifokr . org>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 09:29:38 -0600 (CST)
To: armin <armin @ data . tops . net>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine . LNX . 3 . 91 . 970212111420 . 17770A-100000 @ data . tops . net>

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+ armin said:
+
+ please, please, please, PLEASE !!!!!!!!
+ stop posting in HTML !!!!!!!!
+ at least _some people in here use pine or other
+ good mail programms. 
+ HTML != email -----> HTML in email SUX 
+ please stop it !

I second this.

If you use a mailer that allows you to pipe the message for viewing 
(such as pine) I use the following to strip out most of the HTML
tags (any that don't span lines will be nuked, the rest survive.
You could trivially write a perl script to handle it completely.)

	sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' 


The other alternative, of course, is to write a script which launches
is in lynx, but since most users are writing this email in 
netscape anyway, you'll probably have incompatible tags.


Yes, this is also one of my pet peeves.


					 Bri
__
Brian Hatch, bri @
 ifokr .
 org              "Strange that if you cut off part of a 
Systems and Security Engineer            chromosome, you get a boy, and if you
Onsight, Inc.  http://www.avue.com/      cut off part of a boy you get a girl."


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