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Here's a handy utility to make your forwarded emails look much ( you
guessed it) Cleaner.
You know how those little ">" things clutter up the left margin. And often
what you're forwarding has been forwarded to you, having been forwarded to the one
forwarding ... well, we're really talking ">>>>>" along that left
margin aren't we? A looooong row of 'em. Pretty distracting.
By using The Cleaner, you can automatically zap all those ">>>>" and
quickly re-send a clean, fresh-looking message. Hey, hey, maybe someone could be fooled
into thinking that long tired joke you're forwarding hasn't already made the circuit
around the world twice already. Oh well, if not, it'll sure be easier for them to find the
punch line.
So just say no to those ugly and incriminating greater-than's. And the resulting message
can be cleaned by various selectable options. It'll strip out whatever you don't want from
the received message, whether it's symbols, hard returns, white space, etc. Just copy the
offending text onto the clipboard, open The Cleaner & press the Smiley Face button.
Voila, an instantly clean product, ready to paste back in again. It really works.
There's nothing to this simple little app, just one EXE file. The read-me is via the Help
button, and it's straightforward enough to use -- and makes short work of cleaning all the
garbage out of the margins. If you forward messages often, give this a try. It takes a few
steps from start to finish, but sure as heck beats the line-by-line alternative. And it is
free. Don't expect support because the author promises none -- but does invite comments
and suggestions at schin@cs.stanford.edu