Give Spam the Finger
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No, I’m not talking about that finger; it’ll become obvious in a moment which finger I’m talking about. First, let me ask a few questions:
- Is your car parked, empty, in the driveway right now with its engine on?
- Is your shower, with no one in it, running?
- Is your stove, with nothing cooking on it, turned on?
- Is your attic light on 24/7?
I’m fairly sure that you answered “no” to all of these questions. It just doesn’t make sense to leave something on if you’re not using it. All this does is run up your electric bill for nothing, right?
Then why would you want to leave your PC on 24/7? If your PC has been compromised and is a member of one of the major spam zombie networks, chances are that you’re spewing spam in a constant stream.
Do us all a favor and use your index finger to switch it off when you’re not using it. If you do nothing else to clean it up, just shutting down the PC if it’s not being used would cut spam volume significantly.
Do you agree or disagree? Hit the comments and put in your two cents.
Cheers!
The Geek
3 Comments
SEO
November 7th, 2007
at 9:22am
Totally agree Ken - but this can also relate back to your previous energy saving points. There are a number of anti-spam programs around that can combat the vast amount of spam thrown at us on a daily basis but we need to prevent the problem rather than finding method to trying to find a cure for it.
SEO Sam
November 7th, 2007
at 9:30am
I agree switch it off. Save energy too
hosted VoIP
March 2nd, 2008
at 3:45pm
I agree - but i have seen a few Mac users, who refuse to turn their lap tops off. Always leaving it plugged in - so it is continually charging - so tell us is it true that you can affect the power of the machine if you turn it off? - If so should we be using PCs?