Talk about going green. You know, eco-friendly people tend to target the everyday system administrator for not pushing their companies to install “green” computers. (Though, compared to the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s, computers really are green), why not pressure other countries to completely outlaw spamming, as well as start cracking down on spammers in the US?
Each day, hundreds of thousands of computers send out millions (if not billions) of spam emails. Think of all the resources that takes up in power consumption, you have to run all of those computers, you have to support the network and network hardware for all of those computers, not to mention, you need to host the main servers for the computers processing the information, and what about the SMTP servers that are used and often overloaded?
Computers use more energy when they are processing more information, the higher the CPU resources, the more power they will use. Not only do the computers that generate the spam, and search the Internet for email addresses, and guess email addresses, not only do they have to use high CPU resources to send the mail, but the servers receiving all the mail do as well. Often, one server sends many emails to one segment of email addresses all at once, that’s a large load.
Think, if there was no spam, how many less computers we would need holding up our email servers.
I get a few hundred SPAM bots in a day on my server.
Those alone dont use much CPU power, since Apache is always running, and PHP usually has a basic cache in the RAM of what is going on for this blog and the forums… but, one thing they do waste that is mine is my bandwidth.
Considering that each spam bot uses a few kilobytes, I should be able to get that money back from their creators, since they are breaking all the rules I have set in place.
Oh well, what can you do?
