On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:41:49AM -0400, Nick Simicich wrote:
> At 10:13 PM 6/4/99 -0400, Tim Pierce wrote:
> >
> >There's considerable demand for a tool that will strip out the HTML
> >portions of multipart messages and leave only text/plain, but as far
> >as I can tell, no such tool exists. So I wrote one. Get it at
> >http://www.rootsweb.com/~twp/unhtml.c.
>
> I thought so as well, several months ago, so I wrote demime, a perl script
> that not only strips out the html alternative sections, but renders it if
> the only alternative section is html, renders plain text, removes
> attachments and so forth. http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html
Thanks for reminding me. I didn't mean to dismiss your work. I just
needed a very lightweight solution, since the load on a busy list
server can get pretty extreme. I can't fire up Perl every time
someone posts a message. A precompiled tool is pretty much the only
way to go, and I couldn't find one written in C anywhere. (Thanks to
the fellow who pointed me at Listar; I'll take a look at that.)
--
Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades
