Hi, [ note that this is only posted to lstsrv-l, not lstown-l ] On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Keller, Richard (CIT) wrote: + I discovered a little quirk with posting blank messages to a LISTSERV + archive. When someone posts a blank message with a Miscrosoft Word + attachment (.doc), the email to the subscriber is normal; however, the web + archive page puts the MIME code directly into the message. In other words, + the .doc file doesn't show as an link to an attachment as it normally does. + When you send a blank message with a .txt attachment the same thing happens, + except the normal text is put into the message. It seems that you must add + some type of characters to the body of the message in order for attached + messages to properly appear as links. + + I wonder if this is a problem with LISTSERV itself, or the way various mail + servers convert the messages during transmission. Any comments would be + helpful. Not sure if this is the same thing but we noticed a similar behaviour with messages that do not contain a text/plain (your average text message) part as either the first or the only part. For example in the archives of a list where only text/html (i.e. HTML only, not the multipart/alternative stuff) messages are posted (yes, some people seem to prefer that ;-) all messages are presented as-is (without interpreting the HTML-code). Interested people might want to have a look at http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/snn-html.html to see what I mean. My guess would be that WA expects every message to have either only a text/plain part or at least contains a text/plain as the first part. Cheers, Xander