Save the planet, don’t print your email! Um… wut?
I get a lot of emails with long-winded speeches in the footer about how terrible it is to print the email that’s just been sent – think of the trees wasted! There’s two problems with this (ignoring that wasting paper is actually good for the environment – higher demand for paper = more trees planted to meet demand):
Firstly that adding all this at the bottom of the email wastes more paper in the event that the message *is* printed.
Secondly that adding all this to the base of each email adds to the amount of hard drive space required to store the message on mail servers. Hard drives use power to run, the more data there is to be stored the more hard drives are required. The more hard drives that are required the more power will be used.
On a side point all this including the body of the email you’re replying to has the same impact.
I know it seems petty but if people are going whine about printing emails at least be brief about it!
Thoughts, comments?