This is for those of you who distribute a lot of jokes and other general e-mail junk. If you are tired of cleaning up all the Unix reply marks (>) and the lines that get chopped up by multiple word wrapping, here is a quick fix application that you can download for free.
Go to: http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm
1. Download the program and follow the directions
2. Allow an icon to be placed on your desktop which you can later drag down to your 'Tray' so that it's handy to use when you're on the internet
3. Copy the Joke or list from your mail program to the 'Clipboard' as you always do
4. Double click the emailstripper.exe icon to open it
5. Click Paste
6. Click 'Strip It'
7. Click Copy
You now have the cleaned up version on the 'Clipboard' and you can either paste into a word processing program and save it, (to be sent on later as an attachment) or go back to your mail program, open a new message and paste in the cleaned up message to send on.
The specific changes that are made to the text are;
-Eliminates leading white spaces and '>' characters
-Ensures one and only one space between words and two spaces after each period
-Combines lines that are in the same paragraph (so that sentences will be split up by
'word wrapping' instead of having a fixed width
-Doesn't concatenate sentences that start with numbers or bullet points. (For numbered
lists that don't end with periods)
-If the first line is followed by a blank line, that line will be treated as a title and will not
be combined with the next line
