Canned SPAM

Despite the new regulations introduced via the CAN-SPAM bill, the net effect for us regular folk is still difficult, if not impossible, to detect:

Internet users are more likely to say that e-mail is less trustworthy and less reliable than when they were surveyed in June, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found.

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Slightly more than half said they saw no change in the amount of spam they received at home or work.

Twenty-nine percent said they had reduced their use of e-mail because of spam, up from 25 percent who said so last June.

Sixty-three percent said spam made them less trusting of e-mail in general, up from 52 percent, and 77 percent said the flood of spam made the act of being online unpleasant and annoying, up from 70 percent.

Source: News.com, "Spam still a pain in the in-box, says survey"