I carefully split a posting into 4 parts, each under 20K; two listers replied to one part, each adding a single sentence, shorter than this paragraph. Their reply ended up in my PENDINGs showing as over 45K my list limit. What in the WORLD did they do to manage that!? I didn't see any html coding, it looked like plain text ... but since my choices were reject/approve, I picked approve. This isn't the first time mailman has objected to the length of a message that didn't look like it ought to hit even a 10K limit. Cheryl