> Maybe this would work... > What about the fact that many articles in the spool also have a HEAD > file? Why not remove the HEAD if the article file exists, or skip the > header from the article file? In many cases the HEAD files are 90% the > size of the article file... (20 header lines, and 2 lines of article). I had thought of this previously, but as it requires an extra open/stat I elected not to impliment it. We could perform the test during expirtation, with less of a penality, but not with no penality. (an additional stat() for every _head). Cheers, Julian.