Removing other email addresses before forwarding email
When messages -- usually jokes -- are forwarded to friends across the Internet, they often collect the e-mail addresses of all the previous recipients. Sometimes the email contains more addresses than punchlines.To remove these e-mail addresses before forwarding the message to your own batch of friends, follow these instructions:
- Scroll down to the "good stuff" in the message, then highlight it by clicking and dragging the mouse pointer over the text.
- Choose Copy from your email program's Edit menu. This copies the good stuff to the clipboard.
- Open a new e-mail message and add your friend's e-mail addresses to the Bcc: line.
- Click in the body of the new e-mail and choose Paste from your mail program's Edit menu.
That strips out almost everything but the good stuff. You may need to do a little manual editing to remove all the ">>" stuff. One quick way is to use the e-mail program's Search and Replace feature:
Choose "Find" or "Search and Replace" from your e-mail program's Edit menu, then search for >. Don't put anything in the "Replace" box, and the program will replace all the brackets with nothing, effectively stripping them all out.