Email List Question

Plenty of signups but few verifications

[mark1111]

I recently started an email list for a web site of mine, and signups are coming along fairly well--averaging about 1 per day. However, I use double opt-in, and for the past week, none of the nine signups has replied to the confirmation email. (In the previous week, I also had nine signups; four remain unverified.)

I contacted AWeber's customer support, and they couldn't find anything wrong. We both tried a test email to different ISPs; both worked.

Many of the unverified addresses are AOL, but I also have several verified AOL addresses, so that doesn't seem to be the problem. Several unverified addresses are yahoo.com, and I have no verified yahoo addresses, but AWeber tested a yahoo address they use, and it worked fine.

Does anyone have any suggestions or experience with this?

Thanks.

[jatar_k]

maybe some of these threads might help

AOL blocking emails from websites with non-dedicated IP addresses [webmasterworld.com]
Registration Emails marked as Spam [webmasterworld.com]
Newsletters and Avoiding Spam Filters [webmasterworld.com]

another thing to do might be to bug the emails so you can see how many are getting opened and that would also help to know if it was a specific provider.