diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 8fd5f3fe4..9e7c19cc7 100755
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2009-03-15  Carsten Dominik  <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
+
+	* org-exp.el (org-export-as-ascii): Improve export of plain lists.
+
 2009-03-14  Bastien Guerry  <bzg@altern.org>
 
 	* org.el (org-toggle-fixed-width-section): Bug fix: insert a
diff --git a/lisp/org-exp.el b/lisp/org-exp.el
index e71af04d8..2aa04aae3 100644
--- a/lisp/org-exp.el
+++ b/lisp/org-exp.el
@@ -2894,6 +2894,8 @@ underlined headlines.  The default is 3."
 		   (org-format-table-ascii table-buffer)
 		   "\n") "\n")))
        (t
+	(if (string-match "^\\([ \t]*\\)\\([-+*][ \t]+\\)\\(.*?\\)\\( ::\\)" line)
+	    (setq line (replace-match "\\1\\3:" t nil line)))
 	(setq line (org-fix-indentation line org-ascii-current-indentation))
 	;; Remove forced line breaks
 	(if (string-match "\\\\\\\\[ \t]*$" line)