At 19:08 1/21/2005 Friday, Doug Essinger-Hileman wrote: >The last five digests have been 25 lines, 5016 lines, 5814 lines, >2900 lines, and 750 lines. None of those digests have a last email >that is all that long; the lengths of the last messages are: 25 lines >(the digest had only one message), 24 lines, 40 lines, 18 lines, 28 >lines. I have gone back and checked, each of the messages comes from >a different person, and none of them had any attachments. Here's a DIGEST= definition from one of our lists that seems to work: * Digest= YES,same,DAILY,16:00,SIZE(1000) the size parm is the fifth operand. Show us yours. What version of LISTSERV are you operating under? I wonder if some line counting anomaly occurs when multipart/alternative is involved? /P