Occassionally when forwarding an email I’ve gotten a captcha screen where I have to input the correct letters and numbers or my email will not be sent. It might happen when sending from my sbcglobal account (main account for SBC/Yahoo DSL) or it might happen with domain emails. While it’s always been annoying, it’s never been a problem before.

Of course, it’s also perplexing. Why must I have to do this? I’ve had a good standing sbclgobal account for over a year as a DSL customer and before that I used Yahoo email for at least six or seven years… seriously. So, I, obviously not a new account, have to enter a captcha? Why?!

Well, today, I wrote a decent sized email in reply to one from Anita that was sent to my sbcglobal account. I was replying. Not forwarding. Not even starting a new email.

I wrote the email, sent it and got the captcha screen. I entered the letters and numbers as were shown…

…and then was told that I was incorrect, that my email had not been sent… OR saved. I lost it all.

I sent Yahoo a nasty letter.

Then I had to go back and try to remember everything I’d written to Anita. Guess what? I got hit by the captcha again!!

This time there were more letters and this time I passed. Thankfully. Okay, so for some reason my email kept flagging them, but even besides the whole thing of me having to do the captcha in the first place after being a good customer for this long, why does it not save my email to drafts or give me another try or something? That is just daft.

So you, any of you have this problem ever? This SO makes me want to just stop supporting them I’m so ticked off.