" The message is hard-coded. There is no documentation on formatting, because it's not possible to format the message. If you want to change the message, you can do it in the post-auth Reject section." Thanks for the response. My near default setup in the authorise section provides a valid reply message for the sql counter, the dailycounter and the expiration. Albeit some of the logic in my example are missed. The noresetcounter and bytecounter do not provide a response. Every googled example shows something like this for a max bytes counter in the authorised section. Yet nothing extra in the post-auth... So I'm lost. The closest I have come is this site; http://tim.purewhite.id.au/tag/access-reject/ were the priority and order are talked about. My thought is the bytescounter is working but it does not show a reject when asked... thanks for any help offered.