I sent the following to the Boards Admin list yesterday, but have as yet received no response, so perhaps one of the clever people on this list might be able to help..... The Dorset county message board is gatewayed to the mailing list (I am the admin for both) and recently a thread was gatewayed from halfway through, with the earliest messages missing. The first one had an attachment; could this be a part of the explanation? I have always understood that attachments were stripped out just as HTML is before forwarding to the list. Can someone suggest an explanation for this, and/or anything I could do to rectify it? The thread on the board starts here: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.dor.general/6402/mb. ashx. This and five subsequent messages were not gatewayed to the list, and this made the first gatewayed message quite nonsensical. The list archives show the first message in the thread to be gatewayed here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/DORSET/2012-11/1353526928. Any and all suggestions welcome. Davy Cannon, Dorchester, Dorset