Wrak, Re: Spam Filter's. Those things can be a real pain when they are installed on your server's main operating system. They will block spam, but will also keep some e-mails from getting through to you as well. Seems they recognize some individuals as an advertisement or business, and bounce them back. Have several family and friends that it has happened to with their servers. Was a bad problem as some of them were replies to message board or "List" queries on surnames. I have had AOL for two years and have never had a spam problem. It all depends on where your e-mail address ends up, that is if you order off the net, or the address is posted somewhere, then you are "free game" for the spam senders. Those spam filters are hard to disable too, the ISP techs do not want to be bothered with disabling it to your e-mail address, so will say is your "Outlook Express" or is a problem with the sender's ISP, but "returned message" will plainly state, "due to spam filter". If you have not personally installed one, then it is in the main operating system of the ISP, and they can be more trouble than they are worth, especially to a researcher who has posted queries on various message boards and lists. J Riddle Parker