Re: html message handling in pan-0.120

Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
> Charles Kerr wrote:
>> I don't know how configurable mail2news is in terms of being able to
>> pipe articles through something, but whenever I need to render html to
>> ascii I use "links --dump html-filename".
>>
>> cheers,
>> Charles
> 
> How hard would it be to pipe a message to links/lynx?  I believe slrn 
> has a function for stripping html.
> 
> % In case we need metamail to display an article:
> set metamail_command "lynx -dump -force-html %s"

Stripping it's not the same as formatting it, so IMO it's better
to farm the work out to a web app.  links does a good job of
rendering html tables, and more, into ascii...