Diana, I told you this and since Lynn's ISP is blocking your ISP it is up to Lynn to escalate this to her ISP and demand her messages from you or threaten to leave the ISP. One more plausible option is for you BOTH to get free webmail accounts and then you can email each other Off list to your hearts content. Try gmail. While that might work fine if they are both using the same free ISP, I DO know that Gmail, Yahoo, MSN servers routinely get blacklisted buy various Spam blacklists such as SPAMCOP. I manage several email servers and use these blacklists to help reduce the amount of spam. When we have someone complains that they can't get their emails through because their mail server is blacklisted, I have to manually whitelist that specific email. Without the use of such lists the volume of spam would be phenomenal. The reason they get blacklisted so often is the number of accounts that get hacked and used for spamming, they get "reported", and the server gets blacklisted. Then Google has to show they have "fixed" the reason for the blacklist to get removed. Laura Loding Hayes, VA