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SPAM is Winning?

After recent enactment of a federal law placing limits on bulk e-mail it appears that life has not improved for the Internet communications user. A survey conducted by Pew Internet and the American Life Project found that 75 percent of Internet's users detect no change or register an increase in their volume of junk e-mail. Gathering the comments of 1,371 Internet users over several weeks in February of this year, the survey found that 63% of users distrusted e-mail, which is an increase from 52% in June 2003.

Junk E-Mail Is Unabated Despite Law, Survey Says, New York Times, March 18, 2004