On Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:28:35 -0600 you said: >Most editors of Manually created Digests, have found that their life is >much simplier if they limit the size of each Digest. At least in part, >this is because some gateways and some end systems have limits on the >size of mail messages. Thus, at least historically, size limitation has >had its advantages. I don't think the argument applies to the user selectable digest function. In the first place, subscribers who find the digest is too large for their gateways can continue to receive messages one at a time. Second, size limitations are vanishing at a rapid rate, where they continue to exist, it's often for a good reason (or what seems sensible to whoever is running the system imposing the limit). Concocting schemes to defeat file size limits established by policy strikes me as ethically dubious. /s Murph Sewall <[log in to unmask]>