To make this slightly less labor-intensive, get hold of a copy 
of WordPerfect 6.x for DOS, which has a wonderful macro-writing 
facility (you can write a macro that will clean up a file with a 
few keystrokes) and produces squeaky-clean ascii.

-- Russ

> If the quoted-printable stuff really bugs you, or your subscribers
> (especially digest), there is a labor intensive way of getting rid of
> it; edit.  With the right system you can edit anything, including the
> email headers, which is what you have to do here (unless you want to
> manually remove the "=", "=20". etc.)  Editing the header will also fix
> those urls which are garbled by quoted-printable.  I use UNIX/LINUX Pine,
> and it is easy to do, though it does take time.  I don't know what other
> systems currently available make this possible.
> 
> You can edit before initial distribution, or, if it is only the DIGEST
> that you are worried about, you can edit that separately.  Just GET,
> edit, then PUT listname DIGEST .  Oh, and of course for editing before
> initial distribution everyone, or at least all those using
> quoted-printable, will have to be set REVIEW, or NOEDITOR or something of
> the sort so that you will be sent the approval item.
> 
> Douglas Winship  [log in to unmask]

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