The list that looks like a numbered list of messages at the front of a digest isn't. It's a numbered list of subjects. If there are multiple messages in the digest on a particular subject there will be only one entry in the list at the front of the digest. You will then find a parenthesized number at the end of the subject line in the list which gives the number of messages in the digest on that subject. Ergo the list is a table of subjects not a table of contents. I haven't checked but I wouldn't be surprised if RFC1153 says that's the way it's supposed to be. -- Glenn A. Malling <[log in to unmask]> Syracuse University Computing Services +1 (315) 443-4111 220 Machinery Hall Syracuse, New York 13244-1260 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "Where an idea is wanting, a word can | | always be found to take its place." | | | | Goethe | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+