or to anyone else. My hotmail account gives me this message:

To stop spammers, we sometimes ask you to enter characters before sending your message.

I have changed the subject line, rewritten the text, tried to send the message as a new email, but I am blocked every time. The really perplexing thing is that I am responding to messages that came through my spam filter without incident--so why would my response back get flagged by my own filter?

I contacted Support Services which has done nothing for three days except to suggest that I could switch to a Paid Account.

I am hoping that someone here has some suggestions. I really don't want to change my email account.

Thanks!

Kate