Though I am no expert in such matters, a display of the HEADERS of your
email to LSTOWN-L might begin to reveal the "answer" (I've modified the
name of our list to help foil loop detection) -- take a look at the
X-MIME headers inserted (presumably) by the MTAs ...

<Begin Forward>
(...)
Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM by PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (LISTSERV-TCP/IP
          release 1.8d) with spool id 35515855 for
          [log in to unmask]; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 05:44:04 -0500
Received: from xda137558.uk.ba.com (slip139-92-20-119.wk.uk.ibm.net
          [139.92.20.119]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA30258
          for <[log in to unmask]>; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:42:25 GMT
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by out2.ibm.net id
KAA30258
Message-ID:  <[log in to unmask]>
Date:         Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:42:08 +0000
Reply-To: "LISTSERV list owners' forum" <[log in to unmask]>
Sender: "LISTSERV list owners' forum" <[log in to unmask]>
X-PH: V4.1@r02n06
From: Deborah Cresswell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Testing a French email
To: [log in to unmask]
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by f01n05.cac.psu.edu
id FAA56376

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