At 19:06 03/24/2002 Sunday, Michael Shannon wrote:
 >I've just seen a bunch of errors come through our busiest list that were the
 >form of rejected postings.  The reason given for rejection was exceeding the
 >maximum message size of 300 lines (which I've explixitly set in the header).
 >I'm happy to see that LISTSERV is capturing large posts but the problem here
 >is that it captured its own digests.  All the errors were generated by
 >plaintext digests.

Don't be so sure that it is capturing its own.  Instead, I willing to bet
you that some errant subscriber's email system aka MTA "bounced" it back
to the list, and LISTSERV thought that it was a new
posting.  Unfortunately the subscriber's MTA made it appear as if it the
MTA was the LISTSERV.

/Pete