A couple of people who read this list in digest format have reported receiving parts of the digests as gibberish. This is a problem that is inherent in listserv, the software that runs our mailing list. It's ancient, but it's what our host, Miami University, uses, and it's free. Everyone can help to avoid this problem be writing your messages in plain, unformatted text. If you usually send messages in HTML (colored text, fancy fonts, etc.) then your messages are the ones that may not be getting through. Of course, some people will continue to send other than text messages, some because they don't know how to change it, and some because they just can't be bothered to change it. If you want to read those folks' messages in digest format, your best chance is to set your options to get the traditional digest, and not the HTML or MIME digest. To do that, follow the link near the end of every ohio-birds message, log in with your email address, and change to traditional digest format. Or, send an email to [log in to unmask], with a blank subject, and the single line in the body of the message, "set ohio-birds nomime digest" (no signature, just that one line). Hope this helps. -- -- Ned Keller [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]