Of course, they also all have longer life expectancies, lower infant mortality rates, greater immunization coverage rates, etc., etc. But how can stuff like that matter, compared to FREEDOM?
It's not the users of spam that have to make money, it is the sellers of spamming tools, spamming systems, spamming internet connections, etc. Mostly, the people actually trying to make money from the messages are the real losers in this whole scheme.
Outside of Quebec, New Brunswick and eastern Ontario (about 30% of the population), bilingualism is quite rare. In western Canada, including Edmonton, it is virtually unheard of.
$17-$19 is slightly above the poverty level in Canada.
Here's an approach that would reduce the bad effects.
For the first month after someone signs up for the feature, there are challenges sent. All messages are assumed to be legitimate, delivered, and the sender recorded as if authenticated. After the month, authentications actually start, and the user can go in and remove addresses that shouldn't have been added to his acceptance list during that month.
The month gives enough time for for most users to communicate with most of their regular mailers, so they won't be affected - just the few that never sent messages during that month will be affected.
Adding a few more features, like autmatically recording the addresses to whom the user send messages, and allowing the user to add an address before any messages were received from that address, would eliminate most of the remaining unwanted challenges.
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Of course, they also all have longer life expectancies, lower infant mortality rates, greater immunization coverage rates, etc., etc. But how can stuff like that matter, compared to FREEDOM?
It's not the users of spam that have to make money, it is the sellers of spamming tools, spamming systems, spamming internet connections, etc. Mostly, the people actually trying to make money from the messages are the real losers in this whole scheme.
Outside of Quebec, New Brunswick and eastern Ontario (about 30% of the population), bilingualism is quite rare. In western Canada, including Edmonton, it is virtually unheard of. $17-$19 is slightly above the poverty level in Canada.
How could it possibly be bad for world peace that not only one (violent) country can direct their bombs accurately??
That should be "there are NO challenges sent."
Here's an approach that would reduce the bad effects. For the first month after someone signs up for the feature, there are challenges sent. All messages are assumed to be legitimate, delivered, and the sender recorded as if authenticated. After the month, authentications actually start, and the user can go in and remove addresses that shouldn't have been added to his acceptance list during that month. The month gives enough time for for most users to communicate with most of their regular mailers, so they won't be affected - just the few that never sent messages during that month will be affected. Adding a few more features, like autmatically recording the addresses to whom the user send messages, and allowing the user to add an address before any messages were received from that address, would eliminate most of the remaining unwanted challenges.
Evidently I don't know how to put in a link - http://camel.math.ca/Kabol.
Look at Knot a Braid of Links - "The Cool Math SIte of the Week," operated by the Canadian Mathematical Society.
In my experience, corporations never loose money, except to senior executives. They often lose it, of course.