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