Are you using the latest version of Listserv?

It used to be that using "Shorthdr" would strip out the MIME mail
headers that mail client programs need to properly interpret
MIME-formatted messages instead of displaying them as garbage.  I'm
not so sure that's true any more.  I *know* that the short headers
used in the message archives did not use to include them and I *know*
that the short headers used in the message archives *do* include them
now.

But I haven't used "shorthdr" myself for messages for years and years,
originally in part because it caused MIME-formatted messages to look
like trash, so I only suspect, without knowing for sure, that the
same change has been made there as well.

So the question would be, are you receiving the "MIME Version:",
"Content-Type:", "Content-Transfer-Encoding:" headers in messages
using ShortHdr?  If you aren't, you need to change to FullHdr.  If you
are, a change to FullHdr will do no good.

As for the formatting, your only solution is for all your posters to
send their messages in simple plain-text (no rich text, no HTML, no
fancy characters), and that is a never-ending battle.  If people did
that in the first place, you wouldn't be having this problem.

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Sarah Lawrence wrote:

>
>Is there any way to stop that line appearing in the message headers
>apart from using ShortHdr?

Not that I know of.

(Of course you realize that educated subscribers can *change* those
subscription settings themselves...although most of them won't.)

Dennis