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Re: Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2'
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:08:52 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com> Date: April 17, 2009 9:49:41 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: Re: [IP] Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2' People who publish numbers should try to be a bit more numerate:Each human emits on the order of 1 kg of CO2 per day due to normal breathing, or about a third of a ton per year. So if we are to believe this rather extreme and supposedly alarming analysis, total worldwide spam at 17m tons is eclipsed by human breathing in a relatively small country of about 50m people.
Some have estimated that 1,000m people use the Internet today, worldwide. (their breathing alone accounting for >300m tons). So the spam problem is roughly equivalent to having those people who actually use the Internet do a little more exercise than they normally do.
Let's focus on some *real* problems. Symantec's desire to scam stimulus money should be treated with the huge lack of respect it deserves. Flush it in the crapper.
David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Tom Gray <tom_gray_grc () yahoo com> Date: April 16, 2009 10:14:15 PM EDT To: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>, dave () farber net Subject: Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2' Prof Farber This BBC article may be of interest for your IP list: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8001749.stm Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2' Spam emission breakdown Percentage of green house gas emissions per spam messageA study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes.The Carbon Footprint of e-mail Spam report estimated that 62 trillion spam emails are sent globally every year. ...------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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