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Inboxes clogged despite spam law
4/11/2005 | 
Coverage
Brian Kladko, NorthJersey.com
'"Like mosquitoes or taxes, spam is a fact of life. That's the bad news.
The good news? Like most facts of life, we're getting used to it.
"It's kind of like getting wrong numbers on the phone, or telemarketers," said Dean Mattson, a 37-year-old audio technician from Cliffside Park. "It's part of the society we live in today."
Mattson's nonchalance about junk e-mail is becoming the norm, according to a survey released Sunday.
Fewer people blame spam for making the Internet unpleasant or annoying, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. In a telephone poll of nearly 1,300 people, 67 percent thought unwanted e-mail had soured their online experience, compared with 77 percent a year ago.
The survey sought to measure the spam problem and people's reactions to it a year after a federal anti-spam law took effect."
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