Thanks Joan. Yahoo is one of the best at following through with reported messages and if they can do anything about it they report that they do it to you also. other services never respond, so you don't know if your complaint went to never never land. Virginia In a message dated 7/28/2006 11:05:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, JYoung6180@aol.com writes: The only way I found around it was to munge (change) the URL you are reporting. Stick asterisks or SOMETHING in the middle so AOL will let it through and let Yahoo know what you changed--that asterisks must be removed...for instance: http:*//bad*url.com <---something like that might get through but merely forwarding won't.