end result would be a flat text file with a command per line wget all the pages will probably work but piping some of the commands may cause data loss or other mess to clean up. while researching a better method , i noticed references to this page. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 after laughing at it for a while , and trying some regex, an HTML Parser to extract text from the HTML looks like a better solution than a regex. To unsubscribe send to ncolug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.