My appreciation to both the on- and off-list suggestions I've received on this. Unfortunately, none of them solves the need to have a means of simply stripping off quoted bottom banners from subscribers' replies and similar minor edits of postings. The suggestion to use, say, Eudora's forwarding feature won't work because it is forwarding the approval message from Listserv; sure, I can manually strip off the instruction language at the top and make other edits before sending on to the list, but the message appears to be coming from Listserv (i.e. the source of the approval message) and not the person who posted the message. Sure, the Eudora forwarding feature is great if someone happens to send me the message intended for the list, rather than posting directly to the list, since by using the forwarding feature the posting appears to be coming from the originator and not me (though Eudora does insert an acceptable notation that it was forwarded by me). But this circumstance is quite rare and not the need I'm trying to address. Suggestions to become an email client contortionist -- I'm more or less a consumer, not a programmer -- are beyond my expertise and in any case miss the central point of my posting, which, enlightened by the helpful replies thus far on the thread, is as follows: Do the good folks at LSoft intend -- or can they be persuaded -- to include in 1.8d a feature that enables list editors to make modifications to postings? I realize that there are RFC822 standards; it seems to me though that an editing function from within Listserv can be created which does not do violence to these standards. These are, after all, external standards, are they not? Stephen C. Nill, J.D. CharityChannel, the Internet Discussion Forums of American Philanthropy Review [log in to unmask] http://CharityChannel.com/