In a message to All dated 05 Jun 97 00:06, Hheagy@Delphi.Com writes:
 Hh> I have heard that there was an article
 Hh> in the Parade section of
 Hh> last Sunday's Houston Chronicle about a new theory about
 Hh> Retinopathy prematurity formerly known
 Hh> as R.L.F. being caused by
 Hh> the blue from the florescent lights in
 Hh> the baby nursery and that
 Hh> there are people trying to get
 Hh> hospitals to stop using it.  All the
Right. Someone else posted something about this to which I've 
replied (unless I erased that .rep packet). Actually, people have 
speculated about this and other causes of ROP for years and, at 
least until recently, all the literature I've read was inclusive 
at best. Even the finding in 1953 that ROP was "caused" by excess 
oxygen being given to babies in incubators was based, according to 
a medical text by a Dr. Silberman, not on scientific studies but 
rather upon a rather inflamatory press release from a New York 
hospital. That the information was taken as Gospel by everyone 
including physicians is a measure of how much blindness was and is 
feared in our society. Anyway, the best predictive factor for the 
occurrence of ROP is the degree of prematurity of the infants 
involved. The etiology of the disease is complicated.
 Hh> information about this is available on the web at:
 Hh> http://rdcbraille.com/tbpb/.html
Thank you. I'll look that one up.
 Hh> And speaking of
 Hh> html, does anyone know how to
 Hh> strip out those extra characters?  I
 Hh> have received e-mail in the
 Hh> html format.  Fortunately, so far, it
 Hh> is just spam e-mail which I
 Hh> am not interested in, but if I should
 Hh> get something worth looking
 Hh> at is there a decoder that can strip
 Hh> out those characters, and is
 Hh> there a way when reading something
 Hh> online that they can be striped
 Hh> out?  Thanks.
I consider sending of raw HTML filesin the mail a sure-fire 
indicator of SPAM and hit the "d" key as soon as I start hearing 
such codes. I don't know of any way on-line to strip out such 
codes though there ought be a way under UNIX systems to pipe 
mailer output thru some sort of filter. I understand that KanSys 
Inc.'s BARB the Browser handles HTML files. I would presume this 
means that it strips out the codes and does its best to convert 
the page layout into something which is intelligible with speech 
of Braille display.
Mike Freeman; Internet: mikef@pacifier.com; Amateur Radio Callsign: K7UIJ
President, National Federation of the Blind of Washington
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