E-mail Delivery Rates Improved in First Half of 2006

* 20.7 percent of commercial e-mail was blocked from consumers’ inboxes in all of 2005;
* 22 percent was blocked in 2004;
* 18.7 percent was blocked in 2003; and
* 15 percent was blocked in 2002;

Other data revealed by the report:

* In the first half of 2006, Internet service provider (ISP) Excite blocked the most commercial e-mail, 50.7 percent;
* Compuserve blocked the least, 11.8 percent;
* AOL blocked 14.1 percent;
* Yahoo! blocked 15.2 percent;
* Hotmail blocked 22.7 percent; and
* Gmail blocked 34.3 percent.