Posted AT 1:15 PM EST on 22/12/04
Who opens e-mail spam?
Canadians admit to being stressed by spam e-mails, but can't resist responding to the junk.
The annual Internet review by Yahoo Canada reports that about one out of three Yahoo e-mail users said they opened spam messages because they had interesting subject lines. Forty-eight per cent of users respond to spam messages by unsubscribing. Others say they respond to the junk messages to give spammers a "piece of their mind.
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