Yahoo News has a story about a survey that Pew ran:
NEW YORK – Spam messages are increasingly plaguing e-mail inboxes, but more Americans are accepting them as a fact of life, a new study finds.
Thirty-seven percent of U.S. e-mail users say they are getting more junk in their personal e-mail accounts, and 29 percent see an increase in their work accounts. About half say they have not noticed a change, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said in its study, released Wednesday.
Meanwhile, 28 percent of Internet users now say that spam is not a problem at all, up from 16 percent in June 2003.
Two things- 1) my coworkers have looked at Pew surveys and could take more than once. . . skewed results? Not too sure, the article does note that it was a phone survey to “1492 internet users”. 2) Maybe it’s a fact of life, but it’s still a big problem. The survey also didn’t have follow up questions about where the users noticed the spam (junk folder, bulk, spam filters?) and/or what they did about them (ignored, deleted, complained to ISPs, etc).
