--On Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:22 PM +0100 Martin Hepworth
<max...@gmail.com> 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 something clever
with the amount of power used by the routers vs %age of all interweb
traffic that is spam??
The Ecological Impact of Spam
<http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/15/1447251>
"Interestingly, the majority of energy usage (around 80%) comes from users
viewing and deleting spam, and searching for legitimate emails within spam
filters."
