Though I am no expert in such matters, a display of the HEADERS of your email to LSTOWN-L might begin to reveal the "answer" (I've modified the name of our list to help foil loop detection) -- take a look at the X-MIME headers inserted (presumably) by the MTAs ... <Begin Forward> (...) Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM by PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 35515855 for [log in to unmask]; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 05:44:04 -0500 Received: from xda137558.uk.ba.com (slip139-92-20-119.wk.uk.ibm.net [139.92.20.119]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA30258 for <[log in to unmask]>; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:42:25 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by out2.ibm.net id KAA30258 Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:42:08 +0000 Reply-To: "LISTSERV list owners' forum" <[log in to unmask]> Sender: "LISTSERV list owners' forum" <[log in to unmask]> X-PH: V4.1@r02n06 From: Deborah Cresswell <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Testing a French email To: [log in to unmask] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by f01n05.cac.psu.edu id FAA56376 -- mailto:[log in to unmask] Tel: +1 814 863 1843 31 Shields Bldg; University Park, PA 16802-1202 USA Powered by: LISTSERV, Eudora, Netscape, mIRC, FreeAgent Oi, Vai! Y2K http://www.psu.edu/Year2000/