Hello: Every now and then, as LISTSERV postmaster, I get a bounced message containing a message that my LISTSERV sent to another LISTSERV and it bounced for whatever reason. Invariably, these messages are encoded JOB messages of some kind. What I was wondering is.... what is the coding used here and is there any reference for it. I'm guessing that it's BASE64, but then the next part of the question gets to my real purpose in writing: Is it possible to use this JOB encoding to send LISTSERV a message with 8th bit characters in it (i.e. ISO 8859-1) that is a file to be stored in the archives of LISTX-L. Normal 7 bit files can be put with the standard PUT FILENAME FILETYPE LISTNAME [options] PW=XXXXX format, but the LISTSERV I've been working with chokes on 8 bit files, even if they are sent without any encoding like BASE64 or QUOTABLE-PRINTABLE. Any hints would be appreciated. Cheers Mark Hunnibell Email: [log in to unmask] KIDLINK Gopher/WWW Coordinator http://www.connix.com/~markh/index.html