The Carbon Footprint Of Spammers Is HUGE?
How many times a day do you open up an email that contains some strange prescription drug or nudity content? How many minutes or hours a day does it take out of your day to delete these emails? If you are like everyone else, there is a large amount of time spent on dealing with spam emails. On the flip side, did you ever think how much time and energy spammers spend on generating these waste of time emails?
An interesting article in DMConfidential pointed out some facts about spam and the waste of energy these emails cost the world. The article pointed out, “Spam-related energy use could have powered the homes of everyone who flew on an airplane on a day in 2008 (2.2 million), or the country of Jordan.” In a “eco-friendly” world that we have become, bringing to light some of the wasted energy causes is probably a good thing. I am not sure really it will make a “spammer” say I am not going to send out these emails, however maybe it will get some of us who don’t like the emails to seek out those doing it and stop them.
Lead generation and companies doing their own marketing often times involves some sort email marketing. Email marketing is a cost effective way to generate traffic. However, is this something Leadpile Lead Exchange and other companies will eventually eliminate because of it’s lack of effectiveness and the “bad” name (and huge carbon footprint) spammers have caused it to get? OR is this just another article trying to get more of the McAfee product sold? You decide.