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1. Malark+L1[view] [source] 2018-05-18 08:22:47
>>grabeh+(OP)
Here in UK I have been receiving about 5-10 emails a day from various companies - most of whom I don't remember - telling me I need to sign up again so they can keep my details and keep spamming me.

Fantastic.

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2. vidarh+82[view] [source] 2018-05-18 08:26:44
>>Malark+L1
I'm loving that too. It's amazing just how many mailing lists I'm on that I either haven't signed up for myself or have forgotten about.
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3. Malark+z2[view] [source] 2018-05-18 08:31:35
>>vidarh+82
Indeed. I was reading a tragic article about the energy cost of bitcoin and I started to wonder how much energy, bandwidth,HD space is totally wasted on sending everybody spam, junk, messages every day that they will never read. And keeping info for the same. I wonder if it is a reasonably large chunk of the total energy and infrastructure of the whole web?

Maybe we could power a big Chinese city just by getting ourselves deleted from gym mailing lists (weirdly a gym in Cardiff sends me spam mail -- I have never been to Cardiff???).

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