For a message with $1 postage sent to millions of people, the first 100 CentMail users will receive it with no indication from CentMail that its spam. Has CentMail failed these initial recipients?
Not at all. CentMail has correctly informed those 100 recipients that they were one of at most 100 CentMail users to receive the message. We take as a definition of a legitimate message one for which the sender paid at least one cent per actual recipient. Whether there were millions of attempted recipients is irrelevant. And in fact the would-be spammer would not attempt to send to more than the initial 100 since it wouldn’t work. • Does CentMail magnify the damage from email viruses? A virus that infects a user’s computer could deplete that user’s CentMail account by sending out emails on their behalf. In this case, however, three factors mitigate the potential damage: (1) An increase in the number of stamps requested by a user would alert CentMail to a potential security issue, and the user could then be alerted to a possible infection; (2) since stamp proceeds are donated, stolen stamps amount to the user donating more money through CentMail than they had intended — while still not
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