That is a lot of email!

With estimates that number of Internet users is nearing 1 billion mark, amount of email floating around Internet is only going to increase and problems will get worse.

Anyone online can tell you that a huge part of problem is SPAM, or Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE).

The subject has been beaten like a dead horse and no viable solution is in sight. No, not even federal legislation can stop or fix this problem adequately.

The person or person(s) that do find solution will go down as genuine heroes in Internet history.

Ironically, there is another side to this entire problem that has yet to be addressed. The irony is that it comes to us from established, legal sources, not spammers.

We have all received their email.

The From: field says, "Mail Delivery System". The Subject: field says, "Mail Delivery Failed". And Body: of email begins with, "This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim)."

This is especially true if you have a mailing list.

I send out email to my list of over 7100, 100% OPT-IN subscribers twice each week and it causes me to be bombarded with hundreds of emails daily!

It starts with an email message that states, "WARNING", your message could not be delivered but you need do nothing.

Then they follow up that message with "Mail Delivery Failed", vast majority of those emails simply tell me that intended recipient has a "Full Mail Box".

Finally, I receive another email letting me know that they have still been unable to deliver my email and that it is being deleted from their list.

For each email I send out that does not make it to where it is intended, I get back at least three emails.

My experience has been that at least 5% to 10% of every mailing I send out will come back to me as "Not Delivered".

That means that each time I send out my list of over 7100 subscribers, I get back at least 2100 "Message Not Delivered" emails.

Email is most effective and cost efficient manner in which to communicate with potential customers on and off Internet.

And according to a recent report, released by Department of Commerce entitled, "A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use of Internet" , 84% of ALL Americans make use of email to communicate.

This report contains an invaluable WEALTH of information regarding numbers of American households connected to Internet, details how, where and why people surf Internet, provides demographic details on income, employment status, age groups, gender, levels of education, urban or rural locations, race and a great deal more.

For those of us doing and wishing to do business online it is filled with nothing but encouraging good news.

You may access details for receiving a FREE copy of report, via auto-responder, at: mailto:govreport@emailexchange.org

Here are a few strategies to sharpen your skills and your ability to succeed with your online business:

1. Learn Before or Burn.

BEFORE you attempt to send out anything, make certain you know HOW to properly use your email program.

Whether you use a web-based email service like Microsoft's Hotmail, http://www.hotmail.com or your own mail program like Window's Outlook Express, Eudora, Pegasus, Netscape, etc., and test, test, test it out by sending yourself a message.

In my eight years of being online, I am personally aware of several popular newsletters that lost virtually all of their hard earned subscribers when they accidentally sent out their newsletter with entire subscription list exposed after switching to a new email program.

2. NEVER Ever SPAM!

NEVER ever use a mailing list that you receive by email as doing so will constitute SPAM. You again risk losing valuable momentum if all your previous efforts are erased when you lose your email account.

3. BUILD Your Own Opt-In Mailing List.

It takes time, but it is well worth effort to build a 100% safe email list. If you have a web site, add a "Subscribe" feature that will bring you a steady flow of new email addresses to which you can safely email.

Creating and managing your own list is difficult but possible.