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hi all At 22:51 1999/08/24 -0400, dan wrote: >SET listname MIME/NOMIME >-> Prefer/avoid MIME format >(especially MIME digests) > >What does that mean? > >Dan all i know for sure, dan is that it's a type of encoding used in e-mail my email software eudora gives me a choice of mime or binhex encoding for attachments - and i believe that binhex is primarily mac-oriented it's the type of thing that the LISTSERV software detects automatically; if you send a request for the digest option on your subscription, LISTSERV can determine whether your e-mail software can handle MIME format digests [ = is MIME compliant] and sends the digest out in the appropriate format. for whatever it's worth i had a quick dig in the wwweb and came up with this wwweb page: MIME Overview <http://www.mindspring.com/~mgrand/mime.html> and a quote from same: "MIME is an acronym for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. It builds on the older standard by standardizing additional fields for mail message headers that describe new types of content and organization for messages. " isn't modern technology grand? janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset po box 171, almonte, ontario, canada, K0A 1A0 a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/ [log in to unmask]