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| Take off the rose tinted glasses... I maintain a couple of Barracuda spam filters, along with some smaller (aka less than 1000 user) spamassassin/etc handrolled setups, and have had the "pleasure" of evaluating near every offering under the sun at one time or another, and spam IS a problem. Users aren't too bothered, because either their ISP or work's IT dept does their job. At my day job we spend at least $3000/year fighting spam, after much steeper initial buyin of course. We drop at least 250,000 spam mails every day before it even gets into the same rack as the exchange servers. In fact, only about ~2% of all incoming mail is actually ever delivered. We have a totally raw unfiltered pipe of course, so the ISP is not doing anything to the mail before it hits the filters.
Point of the matter is, I don't think the average user today even knows how much spam they would get if not for filters. Filtering is not free, and if you think it is you really need to learn some things. Administration overhead, software maint, hardware maint, redundancy, bandwidth, etc all add up quickly.
"Back in the day" when every email addressed to you hit your mailbox the average Joe decided that spam was a Bad Thing.
Now that most of that spam is dropped by your host in one way or another it's not a problem to Joe Average.
Sorry, but I think this article even existing describes the sad state of the current computing affairs in itself.
I wonder how many of the folks surveyed would have also answered that popups don't bother them (I like to punch the monkey).... 
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