E-mail messages promoting mortgages and other loans are second only to pornography spam in the number of recipients who find them annoying, according to a recent Harris Poll.The survey found that 80% of respondents who use the Internet find spamming "very annoying," up from 49% two-and-a-half years ago, and that 74% favor banning such mass e-mailings. Topping the list of annoying kinds of spam were pornography, cited by 91%, and mortgages and other loans, cited by 79%, Harris Interactive reported. Investment spam ranked third, at 68%, and real estate fourth, at 61%. Harris can be found online at http://www.harrisinteractive.com and http://www.harrispollonline.com.
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The partnership was designed to support the growth of Redwood's Sequoia platform and give Castlelake purchasing power for fully documented loans.
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