David Guest wrote: > And this is probably better that the proposal to charge a fraction of a > cent per transmitted email. This would be a minor expense for users but > put the spammers out of business. It's then a question of where that > money would go. I suggest Microsoft. They're very big on malaria research.
It is worth remembering that it is Bill and Melinda Gates who provide the funds to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, not Microsoft, and thus only a small proportion of Microsoft revenues ever find their way into that particular philanthropic organisation. And then the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation only spends 5% of its funds on philanthropy each year (including malaria vaccine research) - the other 95% is invested in stocks, bond, shares and other money-making things, some of dubious benefit to the very people the other 5% is trying to help - see http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story and http://slashdot.org/articles/07/01/12/1756212.shtml This is not to say that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is not a good initiative, just that if you really want to make the world a better place, you are better off using OpenOffice and PostgreSQL instead of buying licenses for MS-Office and SQL Server, and then donating some of the money which you save to MSF ( http://www.msf.org.au/ )or Oxfam ( http://www.oxfam.org.au/ ) or the like. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
