On Mon, 11 Feb 1991 11:46:57 GMT Alan Thew <[log in to unmask]> said: >He was in fact re-posting something and used a Resent-subject: field. >This field was totally ignored by LISTSERV and indeed does not appear in >the notebook from the site which gateways this list to USENET. > >However, while the USENET header fields again use the original subject >field, the Resent-Subject: field is at least present in the header >fields. I'm puzzled as to why the field is omitted completely from the >LISTSERV notebook. Simply because there is no such field defined in RFC822, ie if you forward a message to someone, the subject stays the same (unless you edit the 'Subject:' field). Eric