On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Pete Weiss wrote: > Just an aside: it seems somehow oxymoronic that what started as an > electronic mailing list distribution system is being asked more and more > to NOT distribute. Not at all. Listserv was created to efficiently distribute text messages to a list of subscribers. All the requests for features to block HTML, attachments, etc., are from listowners that want to keep to distributing text messages to subscribers. Features have been added to email that add nothing to what most people use listserv for--to carry on distributed conversations--and a great a deal of trouble (virus attachments), complication (MicroMonopoly email programs spewing out HTML encoded messages and WINMAIL.DAT attachments), and inconvenience (archives and digests full of partially converted attachments that look like twenty pages of line noise). Most of these features are system or program dependant or raise other compatibility issues. Meanwhile, plain text email, the thing most of were interested in distributing in the first place, is so universal that you can now receive it on your cell phone. Jason