By Ann Barlow, GreenPepper
I know you thought there were already enough reasons to loath spam. Anything that clogs up your email that much, increases potential exposure to malware and causes one to actually blush on occasion after opening a seemingly innocuous email ought to produce enough antipathy on its own. Although, full disclosure, we've gotten some that we've had a lot of fun with. I never thought of myself as being in need of a tugboat or of anti-pirate protection on the high seas, but you never know.
Anyway, here’s one more reason. A new study suggests that spam is taking up huge amounts of energy -- mostly on the users' side in carrying and/or wading through the junk. The study says the power consumed is enough to power more than two million homes annually. Yikes.
There's still plenty of debate on climate change, energy sources and renewables investments, but I don't think you need to be on the side of the angels to support yet another reason for going after spammers. Builders, contractors and energy conservation solutions providers, don't hate me, but maybe a small percentage of the stimulus package earmarked for energy conservation should be steered in this direction instead.
