You do know that if a large message comes in and the Size(xxx) setting is exceeded, a so-called "special edition" digest is immediately cut, including the large message in its entirety? Size(xxx) is only a trigger point, it does not specify the largest digest that the server will ever send. The digest will be as large as it has to be to accomodate the message that triggered the cut. I'm pretty sure -- in fact I am certain -- this is documented. I mean, you're not saying that it's, say, 2000 lines where none of the individual messages it contains is over (for instance) 50 or 100 lines. The behaviour you have so far described simply sounds like you are handling some significantly larger messages (possibly multipart/alternative where someone's specified some big GIF as a background?). If that's not the case then you need to be more specific about what the digest actually contains. Nathan At 02:51 PM 10/28/2004 -0400, Doug Essinger-Hileman wrote: >All of a sudden, the size of my list's digest has gone berzerk, coming in >recently at anywhere from 2000 lines to over 6000 lines. Our header is >Review= Private >Subscription= Open,Confirm >Send= Private >Notify= Yes >Reply-to= List,Ignore >Validate= No >Default-Options= REPRO,NOACK,NOCONCEAL,SUBJ >Notebook= Yes,/home/listserv/home/gunroom-notebook,Weekly,Public >Digest= Yes,Same,Daily,24,Size(800) >Daily-Threshold= 9999 >Auto-Delete= No >Attachments= No, Filter >Language= NOHTML >Subject-Tag= POB > >Can anyone offer any suggestions? > >Doug