Cleaning up your archived mail

[Ronald E. Thomas]

If other grassu people save their mail as I do, here's a little script
file that can take a lot of the useless text out of their archive.

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#begin CLEAN
ex $1 << EOF
:g/^Re/d
:g/^	id/d
:g/^  (/d
:g/^Se/d
:g/^Appar/d
:g/^X/d
:g/^In-Reply/d
:g/^Sta/d
:g/^Errors-To/d
:g/^Pre/d
:g/^From lists/d
:g/^Message/d
:g/^To:/d
:wq
EOF

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This file uses EX to delete most of the headers that come with the 
mail;  I've both lists archived into text files, and the complete 
package (cleaned) is < 3 megs.  Syntax:  <clean filename>

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   Ronald Thomas                         ^  ront at meeker.cfnr.colostate.edu
    Natural Resource Spec. (GIS)         ^  
     Resource Management Division        ^   Phone: 303-586-3565  x285
      Rocky Mountain National Park       ^          700-323-7285  (FTS)
       Estes Park, CO  80517             ^ 
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