[Carlos <angus / quovadis.com.ar>, 2004-05-31 19.57 CEST] > [ruby-talk:101837] has a newline in the subject line. BTW, here are the latests messages with newlines in their subjects (only first line shown). Maybe you want to check if they reached the newsgroup, to be sure if this is or isn't the problem. $ tail -50000 ~/Mail/ruby-talk | ruby -00 -n -e ' next if $_ !~ /\AFrom / if $_ !~ /^Newsgroups: / && $_ =~ /^Subject: [^\n]+\n\s/ puts $&.strip $_ =~ /^From: .*?$/ and puts $& $_ =~ /^X-Mail-Count: \d+/ and puts $& puts end' Subject: Re: [BUG?] Behavior of application changes when adding non-relevant From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye / adslhome.dk> X-Mail-Count: 101831 Subject: Re: [BUG?] Behavior of application changes when adding non-relevant From: "David A. Black" <dblack / wobblini.net> X-Mail-Count: 101837 Subject: Re: [BUG?] Behavior of application changes when adding non-relevant From: "David A. Black" <dblack / wobblini.net> X-Mail-Count: 101840 Subject: Re: [BUG?] Behavior of application changes when adding non-relevant From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye / adslhome.dk> X-Mail-Count: 101843 Subject: elegant way to say "try this thing, one at a time, until condition From: David Garamond <lists / zara.6.isreserved.com> X-Mail-Count: 101855 Subject: Re: elegant way to say "try this thing, one at a time, until From: Gregory Millam <walker / lethalcode.net> X-Mail-Count: 101863 Subject: Re: elegant way to say "try this thing, one at a time, until condition From: David Garamond <lists / zara.6.isreserved.com> X-Mail-Count: 101869 Subject: Re: elegant way to say "try this thing, one at a time, until condition From: David Garamond <lists / zara.6.isreserved.com> X-Mail-Count: 101888