McAfee just commissioned as study on the energy cost of spam – and it’s clear that the main energy drain from spam comes from user intervention. Every time a piece of spam gets to a person’s mailbox, it needs to be dealt with.
A resounding endorsement for server side filtering I feel… On a related note, why haven’t the world’s big IT players gotten together to stop spam altogether? It seems like it shouldn’t be that difficult.
Here’s the article at Ars Technica:
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