Please don’t spam the Pope. New Catholic leader has a new e-mail address, following the example set by his predecessor John Paul II.

He makes the point that several others did in response to my Hotmail taunt: that the number of users on email systems doesn’t matter to him.

So how do you do it? Direct mail marketing. When it comes to marketing your product or services there are two basic challenges:

Symantec intends to reduce the burden faced by many IT organizations associated with increasing costs and difficulty maintaining on-site solutions, with its Symantec Hosted Mail Security.

Although the initial hubbub over email storage capacities has died down, it appears as if it’s ready to start back up again. Apparently, Yahoo’s email service is preparing to offer another increase in member storage, bringing the fight for email subscribers back to the front.

In today’s highly competitive economy, it is essential that you promote your business with marketing materials that strategically position your business for increased customer traffic, expansion and growth.

Jim Logan tells us why Paper Direct Mail is Not Dead. Jim and I talked a few weeks ago …

It’s a fact that your customers are your best leads. This means that the most likely people to purchase your products and/or services are the ones who have paid for them before.

Don’t want your direct mail to end up in the trash with the rest of the unread mail? Studies show an effective direct mail campaign should draw a .5 to 1 percent response. These 10 tips will help you get the results you want:

Where to Start: Most novice marketers have definite fixed ideas about direct mail that are way off base – most often in the area of what to spend and how much to do.

Promising an Enterprise-level email security tool that controls spam by stopping it at its source, Symantec has introduced their Mail Security 8100 and 8200 Series Appliances.

Sometimes we just have to move on. Your current mail server may just not be meeting your needs, so you’ve put up something new. But what about old mail? If your servers are identical (Sendmail to Sendmail, etc.) or use the same mailbox storage format, you may be able to just transfer files directly. If not, read on..

Ross provides his simple recommendations for the annual family tech support ritual otherwise known as the end of year holidays.

Strangely enough, I never had any need for a dynamic DNS service until this week. In retrospect, it really does seem odd that I’ve never needed such a service before now, but so be it.

IncrediMail is fully compatible with Google’s Gmail, giving users access to customized email features.

Recently Yahoo unveiled some new features for their email service, Yahoo Mail. Some of the new features include improved search, Address AutoComplete, and full implementation of DomainKeys.

In addition to Google’s Froogle shopping service (still in beta), which features a searchable database of online merchants, Google is also beta-testing their Google Catalog service. Google Catalogs provides a searchable central repository of hundreds of mail-order catalogs.

Understanding that the Internet is another vehicle for direct response marketing can potentially make you rich!

Targeting high potential markets with a direct mail marketing campaign can be a very affordable and efficient way to get new customers for most companies and entrepreneurs but how can you find a way to reach those high potential markets? Using demographic data could be your solution.

Citing time consumption and tedium over switching email accounts, the Radicati group, an online market research firm, has suggested that current Yahoo email service members do not move to Google’s Gmail. The group also acknowledged that current email service providers should follow Gmail’s lead and increase the amount of storage that they offer.

Following up to a story that appeared on WPN in April, Walla! Communications has launched their new free email service, Walla!Mail, featuring 1 gigabyte of storage. This makes WallaMail the second fully operational email service that offers such a capacity, with Spymac being the first.