I have this problem and I thiunk it's a function of our email system. I test with a herd of attachments (PPT, XL, DOC, WPF and so on). /when I send to subscribers within my own domain *@hcfa.gov everything goes without a hitch. When I send to Yahoo, it's as u describe: PPT is fine, xcel column widths expanded, etc. I'm told by my email admin that our upcoming 32-bit email will resolve this. John W >>> Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]> 10/28 9:14 am >>> At 13:12 10/27/2000 Friday, Darryl A. Pieber wrote: >I'm new to this list. I'm having a problem with attachments being sent >to lists. When users send attachments to our lists, they always explode >into the body of the e-mail in the form of gobbledy-gook text. Anyone >know why this might be happening and how I can fix it? (followup to [log in to unmask]) It takes four "things" for attachments to properly transmitted between sender, LISTSERV, receiver: 1) properly encoded by the sender 2) properly defined list keywords 3) proper subscriber options 4) proper mail handling at the receiver's site Obviously proper apps available to the receiver to actually view the attachment. The symptoms you are describing sound to me like the subscriber needs to have his/her list options SET listname FULLHDR Some lists are anit-attachments -- too many ways to mess it up and too many problems once the attachment is ... opened (how do you spell v-i-r-u-s?) /Pete Weiss @ Penn State