Thanks Ben.  I have experimented with this setting on my test
list, and it works well with one exception:  Where a posting contains html
and no plain text (as where Eudora or Netscape, for example, are set to
send html only and not html and plain text), the bottom banner formatting
runs together (i.e. line spacings are eliminated).  This is probably
acceptable since few subscribers are likely to set their email clients to
html only, I suppose.  Is there any way to keep the bottom banner
formatting in place under such circumstances?

         Steve Nill

At 04:25 PM 8/28/1999 , you wrote:
> >        A colleague has suggested, off list, that I add the keyword
> >"Language=NOHTML" to the headers.  Would this, as a practical matter, solve
> >the problem?
>
>Well, as documented and with Ver 1.8d only, this will remove the HTML part of
>multipart/alternative messages leaving only the Plain-Text part and thus the
>banners are more likely to be visible in a solely plain-text
>message.  However,
>HTML messages created by Eudora and sometimes by Netscape and Outlook
>(depending
>on settings) do not have multiple alternative parts and LISTSERV must
>accept the
>html msg since it is the only part.  If you have a discussion list this would
>solve the problem.  If you are trying to publish an HTML (only) Newsletter
>then
>this is clearly not a good idea.