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Some scary e-mail statistics

Not only does a recent study show that up to 40% of legitimate e-mail never gets delivered, but 63% of all e-mail now sent is spam. It's no wonder Chris thinks RSS is bigger than Jesus. Hell, I had trouble with my UtterlyBoring.com Headline List and AOL blocking e-mails from it. More and more people are reading this site via my RSS feed, and, considering these stats, I'm starting to see why.

Posted by Jake on 01/14/04 @ 04:37 PM
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Neil T. said on 01/15/04 @ 12:43 AM:
When I got around to re-doing my templates section, I mused over whether to have an email list. In the end, I chose a blog with an RSS feed simply because email publishing is going down the toilet thanks to spam.

Jake Ortman said on 01/15/04 @ 08:39 AM:
The only reason I'm publishing one is because I have friends and family who read this blog who would never install an RSS reader, but they know how to use e-mail.

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