Which came first -- the chicken or the egg? In this case it was the chicken .... It is unclear the order of exclusion processing from the documentation. Had it NOT exceeded the line count, perhaps THEN the content filter would catch it. Soo, your SIZELIM worked first. This is a good thing. /Pete At 15:05 11/24/2004 Wednesday, Listserv Manager wrote: >I *thought* I had precluded the following from being submitted to the list >with a filter ( suggested on this lstown-l). What did I do wrong?