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Almost always referred to as fax, this is the term for the electronic transmission of printed documents over a phone line. Usually transmission occurs between fax machines, but you can also use a computer with a fax modem, or a dedicated fax card.
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Facsimile - DoubleClick Sponsored Study Shows Consumer Email Habits areAdapting In Response to Spam- Legitimate Email Continues to Drive Multi-Channel Purchases as ConsumersIncrease Use of Bulk Folders and Filtering to Limit Spam -NEW YORK, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DoubleClick Inc. (Nasdaq:DCLK), the leading provider of marketing tools for advertisers, directmarketers and web publishers, today announced the results of itsfourth annual Consumer Email Study at the DMA Annual Conference inOrlando, Florida. The study reveals an increasing sophistication inconsumer usage of email and in fighting spam, and shows, despite thespam crisis, a continued acceptance of legitimate commercial emailwhich continues to drive multi-channel purchasing.How Consumers Are Coping with SpamConsistent with the 2002 study, spam remained the number one concernconsumers have about their inbox (89% cited spam as their number oneconcern). Email volume was up slightly from last year's levels (264emails per week versus 254 in 2002), although the ratio of spam (56%)remained constant. This may be due an increased use in bulk folderswhich are now used by 52.9% of respondents versus 48.8% in 2002.Consumers are also demonstrating an increasing sophistication in howthey are dealing with spam. A greater number, (65% versus 60% in 2002)are deleting spam without reading it, and only 4% are reading it todetermine whether it might be of interest (versus 5% in 2002 and 18%in 2001).When asked about how they are dealing with spam, in addition to theincreased use of bulk folders, 36.1% of consumers use a report spamfunction of their email program, 15.9% have downloaded spam filteringsoftware and 13.7% have created a second email address for makingonline purchases.- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=36051648
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