One of the many things I love about my job, is that I get to help my company millions of dollars a year just by occupying a few kilobytes of our consumers’ mailboxes. I’m not one of those Internet marketers who send out bogus online Lotto thingamajigs. As you will find out through the course of this blog, you’ll realize that a lot of mailbox TLC goes into every online campaign our team churns out.

I had no idea what we did polluted the environment.

The mere act of people around the world deleting spam and searching for legitimate e-mail falsely labeled as junk creates the annual energy consumption equivalent in the U.S. of 2.4 million homes using electricity and the same greenhouse gas emissions as 3.1 million passenger cars using two billion gallons of gas.

While the author of the article backs her claims with “researched” data (wow, did she really compute all of that?), I just had to take it to heart that she never bothered to make any kind of differentiation between legit email and spammy er, spam.

Well, the info is still good to know right?