More E-Mails Blocked, Return Path Study Finds
By: Christine Blank
Contributing Editor

E-mail marketers still need to monitor ISPs' e-mail blocking vigilantly, as the problem has worsened.

Twenty-two percent of permission-based e-mail was blocked by top ISPs in 2004, up 3.3 percent from the second half of 2003, e-mail management firm Return Path, New York, found in a new study.

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Hello Online Marketers! I wanted to share with you what Penny sent to our International Virtual Women's Chamber of Commerce list. She is also a publisher here on Quikonnex and uses our podcasting system which is sooooo easy to use. I haven't used it yet because I was having a bit of trouble with my media player but hope it's fixed and you'll be hearing excerpts from me on my other channels and soon here on Kick The Email Habit from all of us! Here's Penny's exciting statement:

I tried an experiment - I started podcasting and got my Comedy Clip of the Week podcast listed on the iPodder.org directory. I checked my stats for March, and my hits and downloads for comedy went from 50 unique visitors to 247, in less than a month. The hits were over 2200!

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Those Darn Nigerians
by Bill McCloskey

THERE IS A NEW VERSION of the 4-1-9 e-mail scam that has been going around auction sites and the "For Sale" sections of various Web communities lately. Known as the 4-1-9 scam after 4-1-9 section of the Nigerian Penal Code, most people are familiar with these scams usually from some "barrister" of some foreign country who has heard about me through a trusted source and wants me to help him get money out of the country by depositing the money in my account. I get so many of these letters I figure I must be on some Nigerian telephone booth somewhere: "for a good time and a trusted source to transfer money contact Bill at..."
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