The Great Email Experiment Gets Underway!
Hi — I hope you’re ready to help us pin down which Email service providers CARE about your email and which don’t. The Experiment officially gets underway at 12 Noon, Eastern U.S. Time!
At that time, we’ll shut down the registration page for new participants. The signup form will be replaced with a signup form to join a notification list, so future visitors can register to follow our progress and to pick up the results of our testing as soon as we release them.
Our First Email in the experiment will be sent TOMORROW, March 25, at 12 Noon eastern U.S. time. If, by 4 p.m. eastern U.S. Time, you haven’t received the email in your IN box, check your “junk” folder, or your “bulk” or “spam” folders — whatever your Email Service Provider calls the place where they send email they THINK is spam, but still felt like delivering to you.
To stay informed, you can always visit this blog (I recommend you bookmark this blog now), to see the latest emails we’ve sent in the total of six going out as part of the Experiment. Our first three emails are currently scheduled to go out March 25, March 27 and March 30, but you should check the blog DAILY between now and April 7 for important updates or changes in our schedule.
OR — you can help us beta-test the brand new simple RSS reader software we designed that will monitor this blog and notify YOU whenever it’s been updated.
You can download the software, when it’s ready, at:
www.SaveOurEmailNow.com/reader
The software has been tested on XP and Vista. It’s supposed to also run on Macintosh, but it hasn’t been tested on this platform. Our developer assures me it will work fine there, but it will install an icon on the desktop, rather than the system tray, since there is no system tray on the Maciontosh platform.
We’ll set up a way to notify us with bug reports and any problems related to this software. It’s a truly simple piece of software. Virtually no “skill” or computer knowledge is required to install or use it … but we’re literally beta-testing it with the Experiment, so your feedback will help us fine-tune it into something we might all want to use later.
Click HERE to visit the survey form, to report emails that aren’t delivered!
ONLY visit and fill out this form if you fail to receive any of the six emails we will be sending to you during the Experiment, each time one fails to be delivered. OR — when an email arrives, but you found it in your “spam” or “bulk” or “junk” folder, rather than in your “in” box.
Finally, make sure you check out our discussion on the blog at www.EmailHorrorStories.com. Here you can tell us your own experiences with lost emails or unreliable delivery of emails, any problems the loss might have caused you and what you learned from the experience. You can also report on this blog any problems you’ve had dealing with Internet Service Providers and Email Service Providers regarding receipt of emails for this Experiment.
We want to hear from you!
Remember — we won’t post or moderate ANY comments left on this blog — ONLY comments and posts on www.EmailHorrorStories.com will be read, moderated and possibly posted for public reading.
Thanks! Let’s get rolling!
March 24th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Hi Alan,
Thanks for you efforts to prove to us what we already suspect, the email systems of the world are broken… My main provider has whitelisting where I have submitted some addresses twenty times or more and they still get caught in the the spam filters. I use AT&T (formerly Bellsouth), Spamcop.net, Yahoo.com and Gmail.com and they all suffer some of the same problems. They are inconsistent at best at catching real spam and often catch emails from senders I have long been subscribed to. What are we to do? Are you going to build a system that will allow us to avoid all the problems? Please tell me there is hope for all of us addicted to email…
Anxiously awaiting the results,
Phil
March 24th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I got your first email, obviously. Do I have to do this every day????
March 24th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I got the first your first email and it went straight into my inbox. My OS is Windows ME, will the software work on this?
March 25th, 2008 at 3:04 am
Well, the first email was never received and the current or second email was found in my junk mail folder. I use hotmail and have been subscribed to several lists and the emails arrived on a regular basis and sometimes it is in my inbox and sometimes I find them in the junk mail folder….go figure!!! I am hoping that this experiment will get most all of the email providers to revamp their spam or junk mail specs. I have lost money, clients and important information due to this issue. It certainly will be nice to get the emails I need to get and in a timely manner and not have to go on a scavenger hunt for your email. Thank you for doing this and I hope your efforts are rewarded.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Well I’ve rcv’d everything so far….