tonnage

[kelley]

At 12:35 AM 23/06/99 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>A couple of weeks ago, Ted Byfield posted a link to a Forbes magazine
>article on how energy-intensive computers are. The article claimed that
>every megabyte of data transferred on the net burned about half a pound of
>coal. This list transferred 1,855 megabytes last month, or almost half a
>ton of coal. Gee whiz.
>
>Doug

do you have any estimates as to how much of this is due to leaving replied
to text hanging of the end of a response for seemingly no good reason other
than laziness?