>> None of the lines or paragraphs were truncated. > > That's extremely interesting. > My system, or system path appears to have the same fault as Olin's. > That's comforting :-) > > Even when eg Neil saw the message untruncated AND repeated it > untruncated it apparently truncated again at exactly the same place. You and Olin are both using Outlook. Perhaps you could try something different. It's possible it uses hints on long lines to detect binary encodings, or some such, and gets tricked sometimes. The OP sent his message with Yahoo webmail, I believe. I doubt there's much one can do to change its behavior. Cheers, Bob -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist