Hi, We've seen the disappearing-banner problem here, and the explanation is quite simple (IMHO): listserv does not take MIME boundaries into account when appending banners. A message with attachments will typically be MIME-encoded, which can be described as follows: Message header with MIME information [anything here is ignored] --Starting MIME boundary Message text (HTML or plain) --Another MIME boundary, maybe Another message component, maybe --Ending MIME boundary-- [anything here is ignored] The listserver simply appends the banner to the message, where it is ignored by the mail client. If the listserver were smart it would recognize that the message is MIME-encoded and would add the banner correctly: ... --New MIME boundary appended by listserv Banner appended by listserv --Ending MIME boundary-- I would argue that this is a logic deficiency that should be repaired. Henri Bulterman, The MITRE Corporation Kathy Montgomery wrote: > > Well, I use Netscape, Outlook, and Pine -- if you can tell me how to do > this in one of those, that would be swell. :) However, I have not yet > been able to see the banners when viewing the message in either HTML or > plain text format, and the banner does not appear in either the HTML or > the plain text part of the message in the web archives. > > - Kathy > > Kevin Parris wrote: > I've noticed that sometimes the mail reader does not show me > a bottom banner when the message is mixed HTML, but the > banner is present in the message though. Does your mail > reader give you an option to view the messages in a 'raw' > format? > > >>> [log in to unmask] 05/16/01 01:34PM >>> > I have a list for which postings are not getting the top or > bottom banners > attached at all. Both of the banners exist, and the bottom > banner was > attached successfully to the first list posting (there was no > top banner > at the time). No posting since has been "bannered" (there > have only been > two or three).