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Women are prime targets for Internet harassment, according to a new study that found feminine chat-room user names get 25 times more threatening or sexually explicit private messages than those with male names.
Researchers in the University of Maryland study found that when they logged in with female names, they received an average of 163 malicious private messages each day - way more than when they logged in using male or ambiguous names.
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