On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:09:14 -0500, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> wrote:
> So BS is the best I could find for this job

No doubt. I once tried to scrape http://theeconomist.com. It has so
broken html that all parsers broke down. BeautifulSoup at least made it
through and didn't completely fail. so I agree it is the best thing for
surely broken html email

Sebastian