The basic summary of what I found is this - Listserv has always added 
the spaces, because the web archives use <pre> tags and the spaces 
balance and line things up for beautification purposes. Most mail 
clients themselves compact the string of spaces in the email to one space 
for the same beautification purposes, but the MS line of Exchange, Outlook, 
and Outlook Express do not, they show it as is with the listserv-added 
spaces. You can explicitly set your header type and turn off listserv 
adding the extra spaces with:

  SET listname IETFhdr

The consequence of that is your archives and possibly digests look just 
as screwy as the email with extra spaces in the subject, so you just 
have to prioritize which you want to look better.

-Jim 

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Jim Serwinowski                 [log in to unmask]
UB Listserv Administrator       http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu


On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Ahern, Shannon wrote:

> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 10:57:30 -0800
> From: "Ahern, Shannon" <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: LISTSERV give-and-take forum <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Prepending of extra spaces to subject line with exchange 2000
> 
> I am one of those, and we never did figure anything out that I am aware of.  
> :-(
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Shannon Ahern
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Shannon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:41 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Prepending of extra spaces to subject line with exchange
> 2000
> 
> 
> >
> > With the switch over to exchange 2000, it now seems that our
> > lists have an extra five spaces in the subject line. I've noticed this
> > behavior on the lists which I host within our company as well as lists
> which
> > I belong to outside of our company. Specifically, even this list
> > ([log in to unmask]) site prepended 5 extra spaces to the
> subject
> > line when I subscribed to it.
> 
> Look in the September 2001 archives of this list
> (http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A1=ind0109&L=lstsrv-l#5).  There
> was a short discussion of exactly the same issue but I don't think there was
> any sort of resolution.  Perhaps contacting the original authors might be of
> benefit.
> 
> --
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> 
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