Like you, I too stopped to read the headline again.
"Stop spam to save the planet. "
Spam emails endangering the ecology of the earth? What is this? How a non-physical thing can do such harm?
But a recent study has revealed that spam is the main cause that harms the planet earth as it produces greenhouse gases.
The true findings:
"According to a report in The Sydney Morning Herald, the research shows all those unsolicited messages, 62 trillion of them last year, generate greenhouse gases equivalent to driving a car around the planet 1.6 million times.-Times of India
Like many Indians, I too never took the spam emails that I receive (who doesn't?) daily. I just delete the emails as innocuous.
But here is the interesting fact:
There is lot of energy in sending, storing and sorting the unsolicited email messages. Do you know that 33 billion kilowatt-hours of power is wasted in this process?
The added statistics is, more than 80% of the emails that are sent daily is Spam.
Here is a shocking truth:
When McColo, the noted spammer cum web hosting service provider was closed by its Internet service provider last November, worldwide spam fell by 70% overnight.
I burrowed deep into the news report and was literally sat upright when I came to know that
most of the spam is generated from botnets and that makes it very hard to identify where it’s coming from.
Please visit the link above to learn more about Spam and ecology.
"Stop spam to save the planet. "
Spam emails endangering the ecology of the earth? What is this? How a non-physical thing can do such harm?
But a recent study has revealed that spam is the main cause that harms the planet earth as it produces greenhouse gases.
The true findings:
"According to a report in The Sydney Morning Herald, the research shows all those unsolicited messages, 62 trillion of them last year, generate greenhouse gases equivalent to driving a car around the planet 1.6 million times.-Times of India
Like many Indians, I too never took the spam emails that I receive (who doesn't?) daily. I just delete the emails as innocuous.
But here is the interesting fact:
There is lot of energy in sending, storing and sorting the unsolicited email messages. Do you know that 33 billion kilowatt-hours of power is wasted in this process?
The added statistics is, more than 80% of the emails that are sent daily is Spam.
Here is a shocking truth:
When McColo, the noted spammer cum web hosting service provider was closed by its Internet service provider last November, worldwide spam fell by 70% overnight.
I burrowed deep into the news report and was literally sat upright when I came to know that
most of the spam is generated from botnets and that makes it very hard to identify where it’s coming from.
Please visit the link above to learn more about Spam and ecology.
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