At 04:21 PM 2/20/2003 -0800, you wrote: >Dear List: What is MIME? Can I turn it off? These MIME messages are >always unreadable. MIME is a mail format. List members often post unintentionally in MIME format; lots of mail clients like Eudora, Netscape, and Microsoft Lookout! support it natively. You often receive it from people you get e-mail from. Get a note with italics, bold, or funky fonts? It probably came in MIME format! Even notes that look "normal" are wrapped in MIME for a variety of legitimate reasons. The problem is, LISTSERV has a very old habit of stripping out "extra" mail headers. Unfortunately, MIME interpretation depends on some mail headers that LISTERV may thing are unnecessary. Fortunately, there's a setting you can use to tell LISTSERV to send you all the headers. Just send an email to listserv@listserv.cuny.edu with the command (in the body of the note, not the subject): set airline fullhdr This should make your MIME traffic from the list appear like normal messages. :-) >John >SEA QX Nick Laflamme ex-LISTSERV postmaster, nd.edu (1985-87, 1990-1995)