ml>> hehe, i hear ya... postings in that echo are from
 ml>> one of my 'bots... they are html-stripped news
 ml>> releases from the whitehouse.gov site...

 MK> What do you use to filter them of their tags?

a "hijacked" REXX script that seems to have originated with
RexxMail... it calls itself HTML2TXT and says that it is a filter to
convert (ISO 8859-1) HTML to PC-850 text.

there're a few minor problems that i'm aware of with it... one being the
inability to fully strip out some javascript stuff... it leaves

  "); //-->

behind when filtering the following...

   

and i'm too lazy to try to track it down and correct it...

hummm... this might be a case where i could use a nice perl script to
convert from something html to plain ascii text... something
"simple" i hope as i do not have any CPAN stuff installed if
there is any at all... should i mention that this stuff is being done on an
OS/2 Warp 3 Connect box?? ;)

)\/(ark