Russ, your suspicion that most people sending these attachments don't know that they're doing so is probably justified. We had problems in the past with people sending LARGE attachments (pretty pictures in gif or jpg format) -- that was easily solved with the line limit. But the new game is this fancy email formatting -- you get to attach your calling card, or you get to write in color or Comic Sans, or that lovely trick from Microsoft where you get two, two, two messages in one. In almost every case, the poster had absolutely NO idea of the trouble that they were causing. A lot of the new mailers set these fancy bells and whistels as the DEFAULT, may they burn in ... well, Texas 125 degree heat these days ... So I have to explain how to turn it OFF, and that's not so easy!!!!!!!! I wish if they were going to add their bells and whistles, they would also have one that sends "discussion list-appropriate text" -- just click on that, and it all comes out all right. Sigh. In the meantime, it's set the sizelimit for the long attachments, and then go poster to poster and explain about the smaller ones and why they're a pain (I copy what it looked like when it showed up at MY address -- take out a key symbol so it doesn't just reformat correctly when it gets back to them!) -- While we're at it, you'll have to tell a lot of new subscribers to turn off the automatic echoing, too. My favorite is I think Microsoft Outlook, which is putting the entire replied-to message in the FRONT, then leaving a blank page to write on, so the writer doesn't even SEE it unless they happen to scroll up. I have a lot of new posters come in and have no idea why they are sending all that extra baggage. Mary The CFIDS/M.E. Information Page: http://www.cfids-me.org/