In a message dated 7/28/2006 10:19:45 AM Eastern Standard Time, DULCICH6@aol.com writes: In a message dated 7/28/2006 7:06:59 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, VaGreen100@aol.com writes: When I tried to forward it to Yahoo, I am informed that I am "blocked from sending messages, see rate limits" when I looked that up, I could see nothing that applied to my messages and I am able to send all other messages. What does this mean? It means that something has become corrupted in your AOL (same thing happened to me about a month ago) and you will need to reset (not reinstall) AOL. Tech support will walk you through it. I lost my mail preference settings, but nothing of importance. Sharon Sharon- I don't think so--I have a different take on this. I think you are speaking of something different. This happened to me a couple times and each time it happened it happened ONLY with a specific message I was trying to send that contained a URL that AOL considered to be extremely harmful or one that would only be included in an email being sent by someone trying to do something pretty bad. <g> In my cases they WERE bad URLs but I was sending them to explain bounces people had rerceived and explain ABOUT the bad links in their mail having caused bounces. I've never seen a case where other legit emails cannot be sent out--only the one with the bad nasty URL in it and then that "rate limited" box pops up when you try to send that message. Joan