A list definition of * DEFAULT-OPTIONS= SHORTHDR might be what is desired. Also, many (all?) Eudora mail readers have an ICON marked something like 'blah blah blah' (which is a toggle operation when clicked) -- it controls the display of all those "messy" headers by the client (this is regardless of RECEIVED-line header-generation by mail agents and managers). /Pete Weiss at Penn State (who always has a bad case of the BLAHS ;-) )