Email deliverability test - Do you get the email you want?
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I just sent out an email to my list titled “Did you get this email?”
This is part of an experiment and I would love to have my readers participate too. I have copied the text from the email here because as a group we are trying to show what most of us know - Your isp is blocking email that you want to receive.
Hope you decide to participate.
I wanted to write today and ask — did you receive this email?
This might seem like a stupid question, until you realize how many
valuable emails are being tossed out by Internet and Email Service Providers
(ISPs and ESPs) that most people rely upon today.The emails are being discarded in the name of “protecting” you from spam.
Unfortunately, most of the ISPs and ESPs involved aren’t checking your
whitelist before they pitch “suspicious” incoming messages. Others ignore the
fact that an email is a REPLY to a message from you and obviously something you
wanted to receive.If it meets the broad criteria that ISPs and ESPs have determined indicates
that an email MIGHT be spam — out it goes. Without regard for the fact you
might have WANTED to receive it.Don’t think for a minute it’s only happening to commercial email, either.
Today’s ISPs and ESPs are eager to throw away as much email as they can. They
have every reason to throw away as much email as they can justify — as long as
you’re under the delusion that they’re “protecting” you when they do.Consider this:
Under most current spam filtering criteria, an email from your sister that says, “Please send money or Grandpa won’t be set free,” won’t be received by most of the family members she sent it to.
Poor Grandpa is most likely going to SIT in jail a LONG, LONG time.
No one likes spam. But this kind of “collateral damage” is inexcusable. Not all ISPs and ESPs are bad. Some are actually quite good. But — how reliable is the ISP or ESP YOU count on to deliver the email you want and expect to receive?
Here’s where you can go to participate in a MASSIVE online “experiment” that will prove, once and for all, which ISPs and ESPs are reliable — and which aren’t. You can pick up a valuable free report about the current state of email deliverability, written by an industry insider with more than 24 years of online publishing and marketing experience when you sign up. And there will be
gifts you can pick up during the experiment, just for participating.http://www.goldbar.net/ua/link.php?affID=MikePaetzold_ad
The “experiment” is simple. The report is yours if you agree to participate. There is no cost or obligation beyond the simple requirements of participation in the experiment. Together, we can keep the email system working as it should — spam-free AND reliable.
Visit the link below, get all the details and sign up NOW:
http://www.goldbar.net/ua/link.php?affID=MikePaetzold_ad
Sincerely,
Mike Paetzold
P.S.: Please forward this email to everyone you care about. They need to know what’s happening, too — and they can get on board to help us change email and make it viable again.
Hope you too participate in this experiment.
Mike Paetzold
by Seth Godin. Have to say as always the imagery Seth uses in this book is phenomenal. After reading books from him where he talks about a purple cow I guess the picture of a monkey in a big red fez looking for the big banana shouldn’t surprise me.
