Spammers scourge to inbox and environment

There are plenty of reasons to hate spammers. Add this to the list: They're environmentally unfriendly.
A report being released Wednesday by security company McAfee Inc. finds that spammers are a scourge to your inbox and the environment, generating an astounding 62 trillion junk e-mails in 2008 that wasted enough electricity to power 2.4 million U.S. homes for a year.

Source: BusinessWeek