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   From: address@is.invalid   
      
   Chris,   
      
   >> If you have a better way to convert 'messy' text to ASCII, let us know.   
   >>   
   >> That way everyone benefits by you providing an even better way to do it.   
   >   
   > Carlos in a different ng has the solution for you: don't fuck around with   
   > ng post headers and leave everything as UTF-8. It isn't 1993.   
      
   :-) Thats an "everyone has to do this" solution, and as such will never   
   work.  There is always at least one who won't obey the "works best for   
   everyone" rules.   
      
   Take for instance the kid who *purposely* posted HTML-ed messages, with the   
   text part of it replaced with a demand we use a HTML-capable newsgroup   
   readers. Quite the bit of arrogant barf (since using ES I have not seen him   
   anymore.  Likely ES has banned HTML posts for (text only) newsgroups like   
   these ones).   
      
   Besides,  didn't see that Arlen mentioned where his source documents come   
   from (or even what they are).  I use a similar flattening on webpages that I   
   want to store and use locally.   
      
   Also, the need to be able to modify (other peoples) textfiles on the fly is   
   rather old.   Linux has several so-called "stream editors" available for it   
   (and yes Arlen, that is a hint).   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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