Re:HTML troubles

(Pete, perhaps this info would be a useful addition to the FAQ?)

Thanks to all who responded to my HTML-to-plain-text question.  Very good
suggestions.

Here's what we decided to do...

I have a friend who has a [majordomo-run] list on a server where they set
up a converter for HTML messages.  I asked him what they were using, and he
said demime (same thing Charlie said he was using).

In case it's of use to anyone else wrestling with this problem, what he
wrote me about it was:


	we're using something called demime. it's a perl script which
	is run on every message to every list before majordomo even
	sees it. it can also be configured to remove advertising that
	yahoo and other mail systems place in message footers, though
	we haven't taken it that step yet. more information at
	http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html.

	we're probably going to stop using it soon as we convert to
	majordomo2 since that has lots of built-in mime-handling
	capability. but in the meantime, demime does a nice job.

	there's a similar tool called...um...stripmime? i think that's
	it. i know a few people who use that too and are happy with it
	as well.



In checking out both stripmime and demime, my server admin feels demime is
the more useful of the two, so that's the one we're going to try.

I would say that I'd keep everyone up on how it goes, but if Charlie's
already using demime, then it obviously works with Smartlist so I'm sure we
can get it to work for us without too much difficulty.

Violet
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