RE: Deleting scripts from an Outlook message

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Thanks, I tried that. The saved, plain-text Outlook message is much
larger than the Notepad file -- more to the point, much larger than
other plain-text Outlook messages with similar amounts of text.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Combs, Richard
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 4:12 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Deleting scripts from an Outlook message
> 
> Dan Goldstein wrote:
>  
> > Even when the HTML messages are opened and saved as plain text
> messages,
> > they're larger than expected.
> 
> Are you saving them as plain text in Outlook? Try copying all 
> the text in the message, pasting it into a text editor 
> (Notepad will do), saving as a .txt file, and see what the 
> size is. That should be the minimum, no-overhead size you can 
> get the message without compression. 
> 
> If you want to save these messages in Outlook, not as 
> free-standing text files, just use the text editor to "wash" 
> each message and then paste it back into a new (Plain Text, 
> of course) Outlook message to yourself. 
> 

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