rconner Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Bored at work, found this item: http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/139377 "...here's a statistic that I think everyone can get behind: spam wastes even more electricity than leaving your computer running 24/7, costing roughly $3 billion a year in wasted power alone." -- rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 And all the Members of Parliament I talk to say there's no proof of spam having any impact whatsoever on an economy, therefore a non-issue as far as they are concerned :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidT Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 And all the Members of Parliament I talk to say there's no proof of spam having any impact whatsoever on an economy... They are woefully misinformed. The impact of the time and resources thrown at blocking and filtering spam is horrendous. DT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farelf Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 ...And all the Members of Parliament I talk to say there's no proof of spam having any impact whatsoever on an economy, therefore a non-issue as far as they are concerned :angry:Truly these are ornaments to their profession, the second oldest known to humanity. Come to think of it, they are ornaments to the oldest profession as well. You may tell them I said so. Good find Rick - I always thought a link to global warming would be a useful thing in the fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 They are extremely misled into believing all the bandwidth being gobbled is due to piracy, downloading and other P2P, as recently revealed in the CRTC hearings from Bell Canada's "evidence" (which detects port activity, not content... it could be secrets to the Pentagon, a porno, a homework assignment for all they know). They appear to have rejected all our submissions that it's spam's fault. Thank the music/movie industry for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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