I've abstracted some headers from the distributed list which may be relevant (as you can tell, I'm using Eudora 5.2.0+ <Begin Forward> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Precedence: list Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by f07n01.cac.psu.edu id OAA307966 This list's definition headers: * Language= NoHTML * Attachments= No,Filter Under LISTSERV 1.8e, I believe the noHTML removes the MIME section: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; that is the "styled" and only transmits the only / remaining "plain" Content-Type: text/plain