Maybe it's AOL's firewalls and other filters, but I must say I have very little spam, and I am online many hours every day searching for relatives, living and dead! Some days go by without any spam, and it's extremely rare that I get more than two on any of my three screen names. I am not necessarily promoting AOL, as heaven knows it does have its problems, but something out there is watching out for me. It may also be in part that I have "trained" my spam filter, because the teen in my household with a screen name on my account gets lots of spam but he just deletes it without bothering to designate it as spam. I am crossing my fingers that I am not bragging too soon here. Vanette