Several weeks ago I was attending a small mailer meetup, and met a major ISP owner - this guy took the cake: rude, crude, and didn't even bother to shake my hand. Instead, he just touted "I don't let mailers on my network EVER!" "So what the hell are you doing here, at a mailer meetup" I thought... and ignored him for the remainder of the night. Upon leaving the shindig, I saw the guy getting a drink at the bar. He was definitely loaded, his head swaying in all directions, and slurring his speech. "You know about the magic header tag?" he asks, with a smirk. "No, what are you talking about?" He waddles up to me, "One of my close buddies used to be a Hotmail Webmaster. He told me once, while drunk, they have a magic header tag they use for their international ticketing email system, to guarantee the email gets placed properly in the queue and doesn't get filtered. He told me the tag before he threw up and passed out." I figured he was full of crap, obviously drunk off his rocker, and said "Oh THAT tag. Yeah, everyone knows about it." "No I ain't talking about that one, THIS ONE" (he whispers the magic tag in my ear) "Thank you, I'll give it a try!" "You didn't hear it from me" he burped, and walked off. The next day, I added the header tag to my regular email drop, and was amazed that my double optin list which normally partially inboxes Hotmail, went in 100%. I've been using it ever since, and from the hundreds of thousands of dollars earned from his tips, I am eternally thankful. I received an email from this guy yesterday telling me (in hints) that the magic header tag will no longer be working as of 4-15-11, as they apparently are changing their filters. So, as a gift to everyone, rather than be greedy, I have decided to release publically the header tag, and let everyone flourish for another 14 days before it's extinct. Please enjoy while you can. Simply place this tag at the top of your email headers and you'll inbox each time: X-APRILFOOLS: [[SUCKER_VAR]]
