>I just found something a little odd - one of the messages has a line
>that appears to be 1063 characters in length.  I know that Pegasus
>can read that (and auto-wrap in the reader) and have experienced a
>limitation in Pegasus when replying to msgs - lines > 254 (?)
>characters are truncated when commented in the reply.
>
>Is there any possibility that this extremely long line had anything
>to do with my blank digest?

Certain OSs and editors, notably with experience, the combination of
OpenVMS and the EDT editor (TPU doesn't seem to have this problem), seem
to truncate lines to the first 255 characters on a line which does not
have a line feed and carriage return.  VMS requires both to be at the end
of a line, and I have recieved multiple e-mail messages which I simply can
not read because they get truncated in EDT (my school account, the one I
sub to lstown-l from and do all other e-mail funcitons) but in TPU (invoked
from a OpenVMS ISP closer to home for summer use which my mother uses for
e-mail and a web hosting deal primarily year round) there does not seem to
be the same problem.  My bet is that it is a parsing problem in the design
of EDT, but even then, I can make out the first 255 characters on any
given line.

Glenn