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Net users adjusting to torrent of spam
4/11/2005 | 
Coverage
T.K. Maloy - UPI, MENAFN.com
'"E-mail spam might be a blight that is gumming up electronic commerce and personal mailboxes alike, but just as with death and taxes, the public seems to be growing accustomed to its inevitability.
Ferris Research estimated in a recent study that spam will cost the global economy about $50 billion in 2005, including $17 billion lost by U.S. businesses alone.
The federal government is attempting to fight back, winning a recent stiff sentence in a Virginia circuit court -- nine years of jail time -- against North Carolina spammer Jeremy Jaynes. So are software companies, which continue to look for the perfect technological mousetrap to stop spam.
Still, the poll, by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, reported that although many e-mail users are getting more spam than a year ago -- since Congress passed the CAN-SPAM Act -- "they are minding it less" and the the harmful impact of unsolicited messages is diminishing for them."
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