. I think email addresses in the address book are immune to the spam filters.
Thank you E! that’s an easy to accomplish suggestion that if it holds true, should solve most of my problems getting my emails thru to my surfers.
Dom – you’re so right; and stupid of me not to think of that.
That said however, still remains the problem but better to go with the image approach and hope they have images allowed, than to risk text that in many cases (such as I suspect AOL does) will be filtered out before the letter ever reaches the individual’s personal filter preferences, because I truly think that AOL filters without giving the individual a choice when it comes to some cases, …. such as gambling and perhaps porn.
I think a happy medium might be reached in the case of the casino emails. I would suggest putting in some text that is likely to get past filters, such as “40% added to next deposit”, something to give the reader a reason to perhaps perk their curiosity enough to turn on the images.
Also I think it would be safe to include a “before this date” or some kind of hint as to the shelf life of the offer. So that they don’t set it aside and then forget about it.