McAfee

A new study from software developer McAfee this week could put new pressure on lawmakers to do something about the spam problem.

This spam is definitely not the problem.

It turns out that unwanted e-mail messages are not only annoying; the writing, routing and deleting of spam uses about 33 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year. That equates to the electricity used by 2.1 million U.S. homes.