Freeware cleans up email indent marks

I receive and send the vast majority of my email as plaintext. But, after several forwarded emails and replies, the amount of indented, commented text (i.e., text set off with ">" marks to indicate what you're replying to) becomes annoying. And if for some reason you wanted to clean up those marks, the only way to do it has been manually.

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The program runs as a single 171K executable, no installer needed. Once launched, it provides you with a window into which you can paste the text of the email to be cleaned. Click "Strip It!" and the indent marks are stripped out and the original quoted text is restored as best as possible. Another button lets you copy the results back to the clipboard to be reused wherever you like.

Useful as it is, the tiny program has two drawbacks:

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