Re: Message police

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

>  From:    rob@dekko.com

>  That's nice, but how do I fix the problem?

I only know of 3 choices:

1. Do nothing - it is a nuisance but that's e-life.

2. For what you really want to keep, go through the tedium of cut paste 
manually delete the garbage that was added ... I do this for example in my 
JOKE files which is humor organized by type of subject, such as how Hollywood 
represents computers, or computer jokes that are not bashing people who are 
very low down on the learning curve, but rather how programmers in different 
high level languages might accomplish an obvious task.

3. Think logically about software needed to translate trashed e-mail back 
into sane readability, then go seek it out.  This stuff follows one of 
several patterns that I have seen.  It should be practical for some software 
to read text character for character looking for certain patterns, such as 
SOFT "new line" symbols as opposed to HARD & removing them, and also those 
=20= things, then put the text into a word processor readjust the lines so it 
wrap around smooth.

Alister William Macintyre 
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