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[David Gaskill]

On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 08:44:15 -0400 (EDT), Skip Huffman wrote:

>So HTML email produces (((X*Y*Z)/10^6)*1.341) extra pounds of
>CO2 in the acmosphere each hour of each day.  I cannot find a
>definitive resource for the exact effect of those extra pounds
>of CO2 on actual global warming.

That may well be a significant effect but I was more concerned by the 
heat generation caused by html e-mail. 

As you know many on this list become incandescent with rage on 
receiving an e-mail in this format. Of course sending html e-mail to 
members of this list is a particularly efficient method of heat generation 
but if worldwide only 0.1 per cent of the population generated one 
kilowatt hour on receipt of such a communication a relatively small 
amount of worldwide html spam should be sufficient to cause the 
Maldives to disappear beneath the waves.

David