I am in the process of testing a new LISTSERV 14.5 list that I set up  
yesterday for a non-profit volunteer tech support group with which I  
am involved. This group hosts two lists  on another server, not under  
LISTSERV. The group's executive board and I are moving both lists to  
the LISTSERV that I manage. I moved the executive board's list last  
night. We intend to use that in order to give the board members and  
me time to tweak the settings to best meet our needs. This group is  
very skittish about doing any changes in how our methods of  
communications work, so I am trying to make this list migration go as  
smoothly as possible and use this first list as the gold standard for  
how we'll treat the list for the general membership. So far, the  
board members are very happy, including the manager of the old list  
who was very obstructionist to this move for years before he finally  
buckled under.

Anyway, our testing with the board's list looks good, except for a  
minor issue that really seems to bother only me, but I want to fix it  
anyway. We want to allow any kind of content (e.g., HTML, rtf,  
attachments, etc.) to be posted and distributed to the list. That  
appears to work well.

What isn't meeting my expectations is how messages in rtf format are  
stored in this list's archives.  For some reason, an rtf message  
appears as plain text in the archives, but rft in the individual  
email messages that people receive.

What I want to know is how I can preserve the formatting in the  
archived messages.

Also, a truly minor issue involves that way file names are  
represented in the archives. The files get stored in the archives and  
they can be opened fine in the relevant application, but any file  
name that contains blank spaces has the spaces stripped out. For  
example, if I sent a file called "this file.doc" to the list, it gets  
distributed fine and I can access it fine  in the archives, but its  
name appears as "thisfile.doc" and I am curios about what that's  
happening. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get the file names  
to be preserved in the archives?

In case it  matters, the archives are being accessed via the WA cgi  
and our http server is Apache and this all runs on a system with Suse  
Linux on it for the OS.

Here's the list's relevant header keywords ...

* Default-Options= NoAck,Mime,Html,IETFhdr,Repro,SUBJecthdr
* Notebook= Yes,/home/listserv/home/boardmlmug,Monthly,Private