At 19:08 1/21/2005 Friday, Doug Essinger-Hileman wrote:
 >The last five digests have been 25 lines, 5016 lines, 5814 lines,
 >2900 lines, and 750 lines. None of those digests have a last email
 >that is all that long; the lengths of the last messages are: 25 lines
 >(the digest had only one message), 24 lines, 40 lines, 18 lines, 28
 >lines. I have gone back and checked, each of the messages comes from
 >a different person, and none of them had any attachments.

Here's a DIGEST= definition from one of our lists that seems to work:

* Digest= YES,same,DAILY,16:00,SIZE(1000)

the size parm is the fifth operand.  Show us yours.

What version of LISTSERV are you operating under?

I wonder if some line counting anomaly occurs when multipart/alternative 
is involved?

/P