A recent study indicates they are!

In an article for online eWeek Enterprise News and Reviews, Study: Spam Filters Often Looses E-Mails, columnist Anick Jesdanun wrote,

As spam-fighting tools become increasingly aggressive, e-mail recipients risk losing newsletters and promotions they've requested.

A new study attempts to quantify missed bulk mailings. Return Path, a company that monitors e-mail performance for online marketers, found that nearly 19 percent of e-mail sent by its customers never reached the inboxes of intended recipients.

This study was conducted by Return Path, a email research firm and provider of various email performance services at both the corporate and personal levels. According to the article, the study included eighteen major ISPs and one hundred Return Path customers. The period of the study was the last half of 2003, and they estimated that this loss of email was up nearly 4% over the same time period for 2002. The article went on to say,

In some cases, the messages weren't delivered at all; in other cases, messages wound up in spam folders that are rarely checked. Though technical glitches can also cause mail to disappear, Return Path blames most of the deletions on spam filters.

Nothing will be lost or misdirected when published in a Q Channel, so you can be sure if you subscribe to your favorite publishers information in that format, you will get everything they have to offer. There will be no interference from your ISP, from tightly constrained corporate or personal email filters, and there is no risk of loss through accidental deletion. Everything your publisher posts to his channel is always available to you, and is fully searchable with Qsearch, our media-rich search engine.

QuikView, our browser-based channel viewer is free, easy to get and to use, and will keep all of your channel subscriptions organized and instantly accessible. Forget about slogging through all that stuff in your email in-box. Just click the Channel Summary link in your QuikView sidebar, and all of your channel subscriptions will be there, with the dates of the most recent posts for each. To learn more and to get your own free QuikView, just Click Here!

The advantages of Q Channel subscriptions

Subscribers to Quikonnex Channels constantly tell us that they would never consider going back to email subscriptions for their newsletters and other online publications. Once you have experienced "channeling," you will know why. Some of the reasons subscribers love their Q Channels:

 You are in total control of your online subscriptions

 Q Channels are spam-proof, no need for special filters to defend against spam

 Keep your email address private, for your personal communication only

 You have immediate access to all the news from your publishers

 Q channels are media-rich, you see and hear all your publisher has to offer

 Use QMTP Quik Messenger to leave your publishers messages instead of emailing

 Q channels support comments, you can respond to your publisher, in their channel

 The QuikView Channel Summary displays all your subscriptions at a glance

 Awasu notifies you when news arrives, no need to waste time browsing

 No more lost email

 No more silly rules in your mail program, stripping out graphics or attachments

 No more hassles with your ISP filtering out mail you have been waiting to receive

 No more double opt-in for your subscriptions, just click the special subscribe icon

 Sharing articles is easier than sharing ezines, with the link below each article

... and so many more advantages you will really will have to experience "channeling" for yourself to understand.

Please take a moment to browse our Subscriber FAQs if you would like more information on the advantages and benefits of Q Channel subscriptions.

It seems like everyone wants your email address and, if you don't investigate thoroughly, you won't know who's getting or buying it. Publishers using Quikonnex Channels do not need your email address. Their interest is in providing you quality information and keeping you as one of their readers.

Nothing personal against Email, but we'd like to see it go back to the use for which it was originally intended. It's nice to get an email from a friend or family member, to get a receipt via email when we order something online, or to get a newsletter about a topic in which we're interested. But it's not nice! to get to get Emails telling us how to enlarge various parts of the body, containing viruses, hoaxes and other urban legends, and all the other junk out on the Internet designed to steal our money, our identity, and to irritate us beyond imagination! And let's add one more thing to the furthering degradation of Email's effectiveness, it's not nice to NOT! receive information that we've requested, want and need!

Channels provide you with a way to get timely information that you want, when you want it!!! They're virus and spam free and since our channels are centrally managed through our database, publishers are prohibited from adding content containing pornography, anything about hate or terrorism, or malicious javascripts. Additionally, our publishers know that it's easy for you to stop receiving their information -- no more unsubscribes -- they have an incentive to write well and provide you with quality information.

Quikonnex channels provide a real WIN-WIN situation between subscribers and publishers. Subscribers get quality information without giving up their email address to get it and publishers retain a reader that may visit their website and buy products or services from them or even donate to keep them in business. Additionally, with our support of multiple non-email messaging systems, subscribers can now easily communicate with their publishers engaging in meaningful dialogue, should they choose to do so. This is no longer one-way communication.

We welcome you to search on topics of interest to you in the QSearch system. When you find a publisher that writes about subjects in which you are interested then just click on their channel's special subscription icon and add them to your personal channel list.

We also welcome you to tell other publishers that you enjoy getting your subscriptions in channels and prefer the Quikonnex system. Demand that they provide you with a way to get their information conveniently, "quikly" and reliably, without requiring you to give up your email address. While you're at it... demand the best... Quikonnex!