In a message dated 5/2/2006 1:19:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, VanetteHobbs@aol.com writes: Thanks, Joan. I was afraid of that! :-) It started before this thread began -- I wondered if the word "illegitimate" was the problem. Or maybe the spam filter reads German, which I don't? For now I can keep trying to retrain my filter but it sure seems to be a slow learner. I must've hit "this is not spam" at least 20 times so far. Vanette- In all probability it was a combination of factors--and the word illegitimate could have been part of it. Joan