[Ifile-discuss] Re: html tag stripping

[David Bushong]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:48:17PM +0200, clemens fischer wrote:
> * David Bushong:
> 
> > Yo<kc34sma21py2>uve rea<khuyowp1wuizl>d about them in the 
> > P<ks4nj3w258mkq1>apers....
> >
> > (If you're reading this list in HTML, try turning it off).  Basically, this
> > completely ruins ifile's effectiveness.  However a simple addition to the
> > word tokenizer to skip anything between matched <>'s would completely avoid
> > this problem (as well as stop making "font", "color", etc. my most popular
> > words, spam or otherwise).
> 
> you've got my vote, because it's simple.  then again, people who use
> ifile for something else then spam-filtering may not like it.  i think
> all i've seen in ifile development has never deminuished applicability
> to text messages, be they meail or usenet, but many have been attempts
> to let it un-base64 MIME parts or whatnot.  upto now, this hasn't
> happend.
> 
Well, even if people are filtering non-email through it, it doesn't handle
tagged input gracefully.  An option to do a simple, na?ve tag-strip seems
like a win to me.

--David Bushong