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How To Whitelist Investment U

Unsolicited, unwanted advertising e-mail, commonly known as ’spam’, has become a big problem. It’s reached such proportions that most e-mail services and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have put some sort of blocking or filtering system in place or begun relying on self-proclaimed blacklists to tell the good guys from the bad.

We applaud their intention to protect you from spam, but everyone agrees that the current systems for stopping spam are far from a perfect solution. They too often block e-mail that you’ve requested, but that fits somebody’s idea of what spam looks like.

The more responsible anti-spam companies and activists are working hard to cut down on these ‘false positives’, but in the mean time, you might unexpectedly find you’re not getting the e-mails you subscribed to…

As it happens, there’s something you can do to keep the e-mails you value from falling into the false positive trap. You can fight the blacklists with a ‘white-list’. White-list every new subscription right at the start, before your delivery is interrupted.

Of course, every e-mail system is different. Below are instructions for some of the more popular ones, including AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail. If yours isn’t here, please contact your ISP’s customer service department for their instructions.

• Login to AOL Web Mail and on the right side look for, and click on, the Contacts Icon. It looks like this:

Image Link: http://www.investmentu.com/images/confirm/aol1.jpg

• Click the green plus sign which says ‘Add Contact.’ It looks like this:

Image Link: http://www.investmentu.com/images/confirm/aol2.jpg

• Enter InvestmentU@InvestmentU.com into the email field. Then click, Add Contact. You do not need to change the first name, last name or phone fields. It looks like this:

Image Link: http://www.investmentu.com/images/confirm/aol3.jpg

You’re all done! You will now receive your daily Investment U issues with no disruption. Thank you for white-listing us.

• At the top of this email, next to our “From” Address, you’ll find an image of an index card with a Green plus sign.It looks like this:

Image: http://www.investmentu.com/images/from_investmentu.gif

• Click on the Green plus sign.
• You will be taken to the Address Book page. It looks like this:

Image: http://www.investmentu.com/images/iu_addressbook.gif

• Simply click on the button at the bottom that says, Add to Address Book.

You’re all done! You will now receive your daily Investment U issues with no disruption. Thank you for white-listing us.

• In the upper right hand corner of your mail window click on Options. In the drop down select More Options. It looks like this:

Image Link: http://www.investmentu.com/images/confirm/hotmail1.jpg

• Click on Safe and Blocked Senders. It looks like this:

Image Link: http://www.investmentu.com/images/confirm/hotmail2.jpg

• Click on Safe Senders. It looks like this:

Image Link: http://www.investmentu.com/images/confirm/hotmail3.jpg

• Enter InvestmentU@InvestmentU.com in the space provided and click, Add to List. It looks like this:

Image Link: http://www.investmentu.com/images/confirm/hotmail4.jpg

You’re all done! You will now receive your daily Investment U issues with no disruption. Thank you for white-listing us.

• Login to Gmail and to the Right of the Search Box at the top Click on Create a Filter. It looks like this:

Image Link: http://www.investmentu.com/images/confirm/gmail1.jpg

• In From Field type, InvestmentU@InvestmentU.com and then click ‘Next Step.’ It looks like this:

Image Link: http://www.investmentu.com/images/confirm/gmail2.jpg

• Click, Never send it to Spam and then click Create Filter. It looks like this:

Image Link: http://www.investmentu.com/images/confirm/gmail3.jpg

You’re all done! You will now receive your daily Investment U issues with no disruption. Thank you for white-listing us.

• Sending Address: If your ISP asks for the “sender” or “from” address, give them the address InvestmentU@InvestmentU.com
  
• Domain: If your ISP needs to know the domain Investment U is mailing from, try forwarding them one of our e-mails. The domain is in the “header” of every e-mail. If that doesn’t work, you’ll have to contact the publisher to ask them what domain they’re sending from. There might be more than one, especially if you have multiple subscriptions.
  
• IP Address: If your ISP asks for the sending IP address, try forwarding them one of our e-mails. The “originating IP” is in the “header” of every e-mail. If that doesn’t work, you’ll have to contact us to ask what IP address we’re sending from.

Thank you for white-listing us.