[LINK] Limit Email Size to Reduce Carbon Emissions?

[Craig Sanders]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 03:23:13PM +1000, Tom Worthington wrote:
> Using some back of the envelope calculations, I estimate that 20 kbytes of 
> data produces about one gram of CO2 per year. So to combat the greenhouse 
> effect, I propose the "One Gram Initiative", which aims to limit the 
> average email message to 20 kbytes and the average electronic document to 
> 20 kbytes per A4 page equivalent. Software would provide feedback to the 
> author on the document size using a row of lumps of coal: one lump per 
> gram.

so killing spammers would save tens of millions of grams per day per spammer?

yet another reason to have dead-or-alive (preferably dead with maximal
pain inflicted in the process) bounties on spammers.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>

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