Danny wrote, in part .. > How much, if any, control does an owner have over digests? Particularly, > can an owner send one out on command. A member said he got a truncated digest >and asked me to send it again. I didn't know if I could and if so how. In my experience, truncated mail including digests is a fairly common occurrence on a few systems. It is probably a data dependent error. So, simply sending the digest again would result in your subscriber seeing another truncated digest. If you archive postings, take a look at the postings from the digest in question. I suspect you'll find a line with only a period in in column 1 *or* a line 81 columns wide with a period in column 81. In either case your subscribers' mail system (or a system close by) is incorrectly seeing the period by itself as an "end of file" indicator ... ignoring the rest of the digest/mail. Another symptom of this problem is people occasionally getting multiple copies of a mail file. This appears in some cases to be caused by the same problem (period alone on a line). When the receiving SMTP stops accepting data, the sending SMTP sees this, thinks that a transmission problem occurred and schedules the mail for later retransmission. Hope this helps, Wayne Smith The College Hockey Discussion List administrator Systems Group - CAPS BITNET/CREN: wts@maine University of Maine System internet: [log in to unmask]