Tech Tip: Clean Up Quoted Text in E-Mails

If you're like me, you get a lot of e-mails which cite other messages, which cite still other messages. And with the convention of
>preceding quoted text lines with greater-than symbols
>>and preceding their predecessors with double greater-than symbols
>>>things can get ugly pretty quickly.

E-Mail Stripper is a simple tool for cleaning up this kind of crap. Just download the 171 KB executable file (there's no installation routine) onto your desktop or someplace else where you'll be able to find it easily. When you've got some quoted text to clean up, simply:

1. Launch the EXE
2. Copy the messy text to the Windows Clipboard
3. Click on the application's Paste button to paste the text into the program's dialog box
4. Click on the Strip It! button to strip out all the >'s and added line breaks
5. Click on the Copy button to copy the sanitized text back to the Windows Clipbioard

Pretty cool, and totally free. I've been using it for years.