Junk mail.

Fed up with those annoying messages in your inbox An area in memory or on disk that holds received messages that have not been read or processed. Contrast with outbox.? It could be worse. In 2003, Internet users in the United States received an average of 10 unsolicited commercial messages a day. Latin America, on the other hand, gets a relatively low level of so-called "spam" messages, averaging two per day. Watch out, though. Researchers predict foreign language spam messaging can only rise as PC and Internet penetration grows in Latin America.

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Title Annotation:	Connection
Publication:	Latin Trade
Article Type:	Brief Article
Geographic Code:	1USA
Date:	Oct 1, 2003
Words:	71
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