On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Michael Johnson wrote:

> I've been getting this on my list from time to time when LISTSERV tries to
> impose a hanging indent on the Subject line, a practice which is as
> outdated as 80-column monospaced text and unncessarily trips spam
> detectors like the one above.
>
> > Subject: text text text text text text text text text
> >          text text text
>
> which looks like this to some spam detectors when superfluous whitespace
> characters are made visible as "_":
>
> "text text text text text text text text text ____________text text text"
>
> Is the feature that inserts spaces into the Subject line likely to be
> removed in the future?

I have been trying for a while tonight but cannot get Listserv to modify
the subject line this way. Are you sure it is listserv doing it and not
the originating MUA?

-- DCP