Love these tips as they have worked well for me improving my results with my client base. Keep up the good work as it is appreciated!

Andrew

Any idea how high Roadrunner (rr.com) ranks?

chris -> my thoughts exactly.

Thanks for the stats.
We usually get better response on plain text emails.

I’m pleased to have it confirmed WHY my E-mails never seem to get through to my friends using NTL. Are they REALLY that bad?

I thought AOL was bad. I’m always getting ‘good’ E-mails trashed.
Many that I know have been sent, don’t even get that far.

Pete.

There is another level of filtering taking place that might not be so obvious, but is very damaging to deliverability as I have discovered, and is indpendant of ISP’s.

The Microsoft Outlook client filters incoming messages that it considers as spam directly to the junk box.

The definition of spam is not configured by the user apparently, but by Microsoft through the default filters, and the filter updates it presumably gets through the "Update" utility.

This is an insidious filtering because it is recorded as delivered bt AWeber, but is then trashed by the mail client before the User sees it. All my messages sent through AWeber are being filtered and junked in this way, so the only deliverables are the ones where the recipient does not use Outlook. I do not know whether this applies to Outlook Express - if it doesn’t it probably will sooner or later.

I suggest that AWeber needs to approach Microsoft to whitelist AWeber sent messages either by default, and/or through the Update program that updates the filters.

Failing to do this will mean that deliverability numbers are meaningless and much lower than indicated.