spammers are kidding the environment
no, not the people who make the “meat” product, the emails. the antivirus/spam filtering service giant mcafee has released a new study, “carbon footprint of spam”, which finds that email spam is bad for the environment. the excess energy utilized due to the transmission of spam is equivalent to the electricity used in 2.4 million homes. the average ehg emission associated with one single spam is .3 grams of co2, the equivalent of driving 3 feet.
mcafee’s study, of course, pushes the use of spam filters, software which blocks email spam. according to macfee, most of the energy consumption is due to users deleting the spam and searching for the real emails caught in a filter. based on their claim, if everyone used a spam filter, it would reduce 75% of the spam energy consumption.
i’m not so sure i buy the argument but i’m for anything that would get the spammers to think twice.
photo courtsey of lumatic
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