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Everybody hates email forwards. If you work at a school, every day you get bombarded with schmaltz like, “Little Joey will get money for his new lung if you just keep forwarding this email!” And the ever-popular, “Respond to this exciting investment opportunity!” Or spam like, “Whoever took all the dry-erase markers from the supply closet, please return them or face disciplinary action.” Worst of all, you can’t even read the content half the time because of those stupid formatting marks (>>) getting in the way.

That said, there are times when you might have useful information to forward to others. Do your e-pen-pal a favor and take out all the formatting with emailSTRIPPER. It’s a freeware program, which is good since it only does one thing. It does that thing well, though, and your emails will definitely be easier to read. Also, emailSTRIPPER fights formatting in the flyweight division, weighing in at a measly 171 KB–smaller than a lot of the emails you’ll be cleaning up.

All in all, emailSTRIPPER is a classy program, and you won’t have to wonder where to put the dollar bill. –BILL FERRIS

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