[GreenKeys] Message Cleanup

john john at johnwhitney.com
Thu Jun 24 22:11:03 EDT 2010


A few years back I wrote a quick free web utility to clean up multi-forwarded emails with all the >'s on every line, and the line breaks.  I just used it to clean up the "1963 article on the Bell System/WECo/Teletype" with one click.  For example you can clean up this...

>  This 1963 article describes the Bell System/WECo/Teletype equipment that 
> was
>  used to implement the original "Hot Line." IIRC, ITT provided the
>  international circuits.
> 
>  Steve C.
> 
> > 'Hot Line' Opened by U.S. and Soviet to Cut Attack Risk
> >
> > Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
> >
> > Washington, Aug. 30 -- A diplomatic "hot line" between Moscow and 
> > Washington went into operation today with the simultaneous clattering of 
> > telecommunication machines in the Kremlin and the Pentagon...

into this...

This 1963 article describes the Bell System/WECo/Teletype equipment that was used to implement the original "Hot Line."  IIRC, ITT provided the international circuits.

 Steve C.

'Hot Line' Opened by U.S.  and Soviet to Cut Attack Risk

Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Washington, Aug.  30 -- A diplomatic "hot line"  between Moscow and Washington went into operation today with the simultaneous clattering of telecommunication machines in the Kremlin and the Pentagon...

The web page to do it is...

   http://www.johnwhitney.com/cleanup/

Thought the members might find it useful cleaning up some of the long multi-forwarded messages.


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