Re: spam and carbon emissions

2009-04-16 Thread Jesse Stroik
> "Interestingly, the majority of energy usage (around 80%) comes from users viewing and deleting spam, and searching for legitimate emails within spam filters." Right -- if your users can't trust their 'spam' folder as spam, then what is the point? They should keep it around so they can che

Re: spam and carbon emissions

2009-04-16 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:22 PM +0100 Martin Hepworth wrote: Interesting article http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16951-spam-tramples-environment-wit h-huge-carbon-footprint.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news I wonder how they figure out the transmission costs are are doing someth

Re: spam and carbon emissions

2009-04-15 Thread Justin Mason
I think this was Richi Jennings (http://richi.co.uk/) and McAfee. maybe some MFE staff on the list might comment? ;) --j. On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 15:22, Martin Hepworth wrote: > Interesting > article http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16951-spam-tramples-environment-with-huge-carbon-footprint