Thanks, Ursula - Maybe that's their way of reducing the lists and list members that go through their system. Anyone can get pegged as a spammer at any time if they happen to use one of the "suspected" words in their subject line. That happened a few months back to another genealogy list I belong to. To be a full member, you have to submit a "qualification request". A potential member put that phrase in the subject line and AOL threatened to turn off the account we were piggybacking on for sending spam (the word "qualification" is what they objected to). The list moved to GoogleGroups without any more trouble. It has some added benefits, too - italics, bold text, colored text, ability to create informative files for access from the mainpage, and the ability to upload images to the main site to share. Yours, Julia