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Email spam found to be more annoying than junk mail

Spam is now confirmed as the most intrusive, annoying and irritating form of mail marketing, according to recent study results.

The focus group study by Professors Moriko Morimoto and Susan Chang University of Georgia's journalism school said people found spam emails more objectionable than direct mail.

Mr Morimoto said it was easy to guess that spam was more annoying, but they wanted to know why.

The 119 college students asked about their objections confirmed that spam email made it harder to get legitimate emails and often contained objectionable and offensive material.

However, an interesting twist on the unsolicited emailing is that places that are actually interesting to the respondent are not objectionable.

Ms Chang thinks this could work effectively with companies who get email addresses legitimately.

"If you cultivate your relationship with consumers in some other venue and then extend that effort to e-mails, then spam can work,” she said.



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