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| | Spim, Like Spam, Is On The Rise - Technology News by InformationWeek |
 | | Unsolicited commercial instant messages, known to many as spim, are expected to reach 1.2 billion in 2004, up from 400 million last year, according to a report by the Radicati Group, a technology market-research firm. |
 | | Michael Osterman, president of Osterman Research, a messaging research and consulting firm, says spim isn't a severe problem, though it is growing. |
 | | According to a survey his company just completed, 70% of corporate IM users get no spim, 18% get 1 or 2 spim messages a week, 4% get 3 to 5 a week, and 7% get more than five per week. |
| www.informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18600413 (629 words) |
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