Re: [werewolf] Re: HTML

[Joe Christensen <jchristensen@mcm.edu>]

I'm not sure how to *reliably* convert HTML to text, short of making a 
list of tags to look for, but that'd suck to code and it would miss a 
lot of stuff.  What happens when somebody uses < or > as part of the 
email rather than as a tag?  It might cut out everything past that point.

I could write an awk command to count the </a> or <br> or &nbsp; and 
guage if it is HTML.  But it doesn't really happen that often.  I figure 
it happens as often as mis-typing the subject line. 

I don't think this filter would delay the game any more than submitting 
a bad subject line.  The main difference is that this'd have to filter 
the body rather than just grep the subject line.

Robert Barrell wrote:

> How about just stripping out anything not within the body of the HTML, 
> then removing any other HTML tags?  HTML emails in Werewolf may be 
> annoying, but bouoncing them back would probably just add delay time 
> to voting, etc. as everyone waits for the offenders to receive the 
> bounces and resend their moves.