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Haiku vs Spam

Mark Cantrell was among several people who sent in a story about a company using "Haiku to Stop Spam. Essentially you use a copyrighted Haiku to tag that a message meets criteria (1 Recipient, Pre-Existing Relationship, etc) which then makes it a simple matter to filter the mail. I'm sure the spammers in China will laugh wildly as they forge the haiku. I challange comment posters to post only Haiku in this discussion ;)

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  1. Ignorance is beaming by cicatrix1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    China eh? Funny, I always thought Haiku was a Japanese art. . .

    --

    I know more than you drink.
    1. Re:Ignorance is beaming by davmct · · Score: 5, Funny

      missed the intent
      chinese send you more spam
      while japanese write haiku

    2. Re:Ignorance is beaming by acoustiq · · Score: 2, Funny
      China eh? Funny, I always thought Haiku was a Japanese art. . .

      how did this person
      get modded up? they did not
      write a haiku, too

      --

      --
      I romp with joy in the bookish dark
    3. Re:Ignorance is beaming by csteinle · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah they did. It's just not been formatted right:

      China eh? Funny,
      I always thought Haiku was
      a Japanese art. . . :-P

    4. Re:Ignorance is beaming by Geeyzus · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is Slashdot, fool
      Stories posted thoughtlessly
      Proofreads for the weak.

    5. Re:Ignorance is beaming by Salamander · · Score: 5, Funny

      Get it straight, scab-boy.
      The *spammers* are from China.
      Not the poetry.

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    6. Re:Ignorance is beaming by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 5, Funny
      As long as they're not using this haiku, I'm ok with it:

      Hello, I send you
      this file to have your advice,
      thanks see you later.

    7. Re:Ignorance is beaming by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 2, Funny
      "I don't know what's worse: Yoda writing haiku, or commenting on it."

      Here's a sample of 'Yoda's Haiku' for your amusement:

      Use the force, Jedi!
      To speak wisdom in all things,
      Talk like me, you must.

    8. Re:Ignorance is beaming by digitalsushi · · Score: 3, Funny
      amateurs...
      lynx slashdot.org --dump 2>/dev/null|grep haiku

      ...or for the non unixy folks

      lynx slashdot dot org
      make all errors disappear
      then grep for haiku

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    9. Re:Ignorance is beaming by digitalsushi · · Score: 3, Funny

      This doesnt seem like a challenging game. The drunker you get, the easier it is to turn words into one syllable.

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      slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
    10. Re: Ignorance is beaming by screwballicus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hank: So, are you Chinese or Japanese?
      Kahn: I live in California last twenty years, but, uh, first couple, Laos.
      Hank: Huh?
      Kahn: Laos. We Laotian.
      Bill: The ocean? What ocean?
      Kahn: We are Laotian. From Laos, stupid! It's a landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It's between Vietnam and Thailand, okay?? Population: four point seven million.
      Hank: So... are you Chinese or Japanese?

  2. Haiku vs Spam by dijjnn · · Score: 2, Funny

    this post is not bright
    but at least a creative
    request for flaimbait

    --
    ~dijjnn
  3. Haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
    What I wouldn't give

    To be the first post lamer

    on slashdot today

  4. haiku leaves something... by moby · · Score: 5, Funny

    posting in haiku
    will leave much left unmentioned
    but those are the rules

    1. Re:haiku leaves something... by mikeee · · Score: 5, Funny

      Slashdot geeks can't spell.
      And now they're writing hiaku?
      I'm afraid to look.

  5. award winning, no less by Mynn · · Score: 5, Funny

    sometimes seventeen
    syllables ain't enough to
    express a complete

    --

    Face it, people are stupid, and the internet is the place where they all meet.
    1. Re:award winning, no less by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 5, Funny

      i don't like haiku
      I can never get all the
      syllables to add up right

    2. Re:award winning, no less by Kintanon · · Score: 4, Funny

      feel the agony,
      my haiku is incomplete,
      four syllables.

      Kintanon

      --
      Check out JoshJitsu.info for Brazilian Ji
  6. The Zen of Spam by Frater+219 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Drop by drop by drop
    Sweet rain turns to killing flood
    One mail, ten mails, spam.

    1. Re:The Zen of Spam by micromoog · · Score: 5, Funny

      Parent post shines bright
      Author understands haiku
      Mod that sumbitch up.

  7. Don't forget seasonal foo by i0lanthe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pro-copyright news,
    like shifting summer breezes,
    fans Slashdot fires.

    --
    "The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life"
  8. With apologies to Basho... by jinx90277 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The old pond; spammer
    jumps in; the sound of water;
    please, please, no bubbles.

    --
    "she says i'm lousy conversation. as if that's supposed to help."
  9. Power Outage Haiku by farrellj · · Score: 5, Funny

    Zen's sound is nothing
    Power out, system silent
    No power is Zen

    --
    CAN-CON 2019 - Ottawa's only book oriented Science Fiction Convention! October 18-20, Sheraton Hotel, Ottawa, Canada h
  10. Re:As requested by zeus_tfc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your first line is off,
    Two syllables are missing.
    Do you know Haiku?

    Anything that blocks
    Spam from my machine is good.
    How long will this work?

    --
    "...At the end of the day"..."when everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself." RIP Layne Staley
  11. Ob. Simpsons quote: by Teknogeek · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Fasten seatbelts tight
    Your seat cushions float gently
    Headsets five dollars."

    --
    I mod down anyone who uses M$ in their posts. I like to live on the edge.
  12. Re:Come on! by MrFredBloggs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why not read thing first
    before you post mindless trash
    slashdot getting worse

  13. But the system leaks... by Idarubicin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Enlarge your penis
    Reregister your domain
    Click to unsubscribe

    Ha! I got a spam through!

    --
    ~Idarubicin
  14. Some haikus for filtering! by Marasmus · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a spam mail
    please erase this from Inbox
    Don't need viagra

    this is for my friend
    always so nice and helpful
    no pyramid scheme

    i hate christine hall
    and her trafficmagnet site
    send me endless spam

    amazon dot com
    stop sending me newsletters
    I'm illiterate

    --
    .... um, i lost you after "0110100001101001".
    1. Re:Some haikus for filtering! by fingerbear · · Score: 3, Funny

      How about:

      My husband, a prince,
      needs your bank account number.
      Please -- this is urgent!

      or:

      I appeal to you
      for help with all my secret
      Nigerian cash.

    2. Re:Some haikus for filtering! by geoswan · · Score: 3, Funny
      I'm Nigerian
      Share thirty million bucks?
      You send money first

      Me? an idiot
      How could I not trust this deal?
      here you go my friend!

  15. spam-stopping haiku by mosch · · Score: 2, Funny

    retarded idea
    sucks more cock than piazza
    slashdot sinks lower

  16. Gradeschool English Teacher Cheers! by Casca · · Score: 5, Funny

    My english teacher
    Finally vindicated
    Haiku has a use

    --
    Casca
  17. It's inevitable.. by cswiii · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Do YOU want to see
    Iambic Pentameter
    Lesbian action?"

  18. WTF. It's 5/7/5, people. by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn, you guys are 'tards.
    Learn to write proper haiku.
    (I could teach my dog.)

    - A.P.

    --
    "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
  19. YOu asked for it by BoneFlower · · Score: 3, Funny

    Vogon poetry

    Stopping spammers easily

    Sue their asses now

  20. Spam Haiku by Chris Nieto by mh_tang · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh tin of pink meat
    I ponder what you may be:
    Snout or ear or feet?

  21. yoda on licenses by PMuse · · Score: 4, Funny

    Take license to send
    email to people I know?
    Now, matters are worse.

    --
    "We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." --The American President (20.1.2009)
  22. Spam Haiku by Chris Nieto by mh_tang · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pink beefy temptress
    I can no longer remain
    Vegetarian

  23. Re:As requested by Pii · · Score: 3, Funny
    Posters do complain
    Signal noise ratio falling
    Slashdot fades to black...

    --
    For those that would die defending it, Freedom
    has a sweet taste that the protected will never know.
  24. spam this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    hot grits in my pants
    naked, petrified actress
    natalie Portman!

  25. Re:To mikeee, re: "hiaku" by mikeee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oops! Misspelled haiku.
    Pretend that it was satire.
    Yeah, that's the ticket.

  26. Ahem... by Dannon · · Score: 5, Funny

    There was a story on Yahoo
    About filtering spam with Haiku.
    So in five-seven-five,
    All the /.ers jived,
    But I thought I should try something new!

    --
    Good judgment comes from experience.
    Experience comes from bad judgment.
  27. Re:As requested by Mr.+Sketch · · Score: 3, Funny

    i know not haiku
    as my previous post proves
    i go back to code

  28. Re:Chinese? Don't think so. by jdreed1024 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Stupid formatting. Should have been:

    Haiku poems are
    Japanese, not Chinese; shows
    what you know, Slashdot.

    --
    There is no sig, there is only Zuul.
  29. Re:Mandatory spelling / grammar flame by benjamindees · · Score: 4, Funny

    ah, poor slashdotter
    you tried to correct spelling,
    made grammar mistake

    --
    "I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
  30. Further OT or back on-topic, depending: by lahosken · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spam delenda est.
    Omni haiku divisi
    sunt in partes tres.

  31. Just in time - a collection of Spam Haiku!!! by Muad'Dave · · Score: 4, Funny
    By Muad'Dave:

    Like bodysnatchers,
    Spam has crept into our lives
    It will win, I think.

    The mad scientist,
    in the lab toils to create
    square pigs for Hormel.

    Spam, it does not reap,
    neither doth it sow, I think,
    it cunningly waits.

    When left with the rest,
    A wise man chose to call it
    Spam: Sow Parts And Meat.

    Glist'ning, shiny block,
    too horrible to think from
    where you came and how.

    You must look at Spam
    that does not correspond to
    the knitting machine.

    Spark'ling Spam that zaps
    when eaten or dropped from high
    drank from the charge pond.

    Unlike the Eggy,
    Spam not only 'can tongue', it
    is canned tongue in steel.

    Deep within the heart
    of swine there cries out a voice
    "Spam, my destiny."

    Saw a therapist-
    He made me wallow in Spam.
    He was The Rapist.

    Ran out of dead cows
    to loft at the seiged city.
    Used Spam, rest all died.

    Ship loaded with Spam
    runs aground on the dark reef.
    Oil slick and fish kill.

    Greasy loaf, digest.
    Leave me better than you found-
    Clog not arteries.

    Truncated blue can,
    how can you contain such vile
    and slimy pig guts?

    Who hast made thee, Spam?
    Pink, glutinous, porcine parts
    there in gelled repose.

    Chopped and fried, layered
    among other things pig-like,
    surely a man's feast.

    The Spam maps Pam's amps
    hoping to find a way to
    avoid the hot pan.

    Spam spilled in the street,
    greasy and slick from the can,
    a twelve car pileup.

    Faint whiff of the sea,
    Greasy scent of things porcine,
    I must open it.

    Missles fly, "Nuke War!"
    All is still, the earth cools down,
    Roaches feast on Spam.

    Sliced for sandwich,
    formed as loaf, chopped for salad,
    my Spam does not judge.

    Once thought unclean, now
    all pigs strive for a higher
    plane of being - Spam.

    By T. Goodfellow:

    Conjugating Spam
    spamo, spamas, spamatus
    Boy I hate Latin.

    Spam in my stocking
    on December 25th
    I was bad this year

    50% off
    an after-Christmas Spam sale
    plenty to pick from

    If Spam were outlawed
    only outlaws would carry
    guns made of pig meat

    While on a cruise ship
    "Spam overboard!" came the yell
    No one seemed to care

    Ma pig, to her son,
    If you don't make something of
    yourself, Hormel will.

    I like Spam, I do
    but I'd never admit it
    to someone like you

    Locked out of the house
    on the doorstep shivering
    Spam waits for its master

    DaVinci drawing
    to British scholars reveals
    early Spam concepts

    re-inventing Spam
    I suggest we use soy beans
    vegetarian

    Like chicken and egg
    does the can shape the Spam, or
    does Spam shape the can?

    Summer '59,
    The rains came early, then dry
    A great Spam vintage.

    Sooner or later
    zero or more cans of Spam
    not pleasing itself

    only Hormel can
    make the manslaughter of pigs
    Man's laughter of Spam

    Hogs, none the wiser
    board the bus to nirvana
    destination: Spam

    A pallet of Spam
    could it be any worse than
    Spam on the palette

    Secret document
    stolen by Chinese agents
    Spam powered rockets

    Proper etiquette
    demands that Spam eaters
    conceal agony

    Attorneys or Spam
    The only difference is
    in the packaging

    If Spam grew on trees
    Newton's law calculations
    would have been greasy

    In a Spam glacier
    a fully preserved mammoth
    What a way to go

    Tunneling inward
    the electron microscope
    atomic pig parts

    pigs, each year with hope
    in vain searching yellow pages
    still no Spam heading

    the stock broker
    stuffing his porkfolio
    going long on Spam

    Anticipation
    Spam in a ketchup bottle
    s l o w l y s l i d i n g out.

    Boy scout winter camp
    Spam unevenly heated
    half frozen; half burnt

    --
    Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
  32. Re:Chinese? Don't think so. by linuxrunner · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thats way too funny

    please mod the parent post up

    correct format please

    --
    www.slightlycrewed.com - Because aren't we all?
  33. How about these... by Mindwarp · · Score: 5, Funny

    From Nigeria
    Someone owes you millions
    too good to be true!

    SlashDot article
    Hyperlinks call to me but
    afraid of GoatSex

    Dear hated spammer,
    You vandalise my hotmail.
    Die with spike up ass!

    SlashDot educates,
    I thought Haiku Japanese,
    Now I know better.

    --
    The gift of death metal does not smile on the good looking.
  34. Yes, we must have seasonal references! by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny

    550 spammer
    trying to mail my user
    fuck you, it's summer

  35. click through haiku by b_pretender · · Score: 5, Funny

    Click-through Haiku

    you must comply to
    this copyright agreement
    I agree || Cancel

  36. Seventeen syllables? by Rayonic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ha! I bet in Perl you could write it in eight.

  37. spamassassin has too many false positives IMHO by BACbKA · · Score: 2, Funny

    that spamassassin
    is all too keen on murder
    kills spam and non-spam

    --

    VKh

  38. Typical Slashdot Haiku by ToddUGA95 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linux rules the world.
    Microsoft is the devil.
    There goes my kharma.

  39. Re:FYI: How to haiku by Geeyzus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Karma whores unite
    New story, they flood the board
    Yearning for +5s

  40. Big favorite line for spammers by ShelbyCobra · · Score: 2, Funny

    this mail is not spam
    it was sent to you because
    you requested it

    --

    -ShelbyCobra

    Living life in the right side of the s-plane

  41. Re:As requested by Anonymous+QWord · · Score: 3, Funny

    I could post a troll
    but how many syllables
    has goatse.cx?

    I'd include something
    regarding "Taco-snotting"
    in a verse or two.

    Where is this 'poopbot'
    when one needs him her or it
    as the case may be.

    You moderators
    who mod this down as a troll
    are indeed foolish.

    It's obviously
    my lame attempt at humor:
    'overratted' sure,

    perhaps 'redundant',
    'funny' if you find it so.
    Score minus one 'lame'.

    One can only be
    certain that moderation
    prediction will cause

    moderators to
    try to make you a liar.
    I hereby declare

    then, that this post will
    remain unmoderated
    with default plus one.

  42. Japanese art... by alistair · · Score: 4, Funny

    SKY have just won the rights to screen the World Origami Championships from Tokyo.

    Unfortunately it's only available on Paper View.

    (sorry, it's a slow day)

    1. Re:Japanese art... by gowen · · Score: 3, Funny
      SKY have just won the rights to screen the World Origami Championships from Tokyo.
      Unfortunately it's only available on Paper View.
      Very funny joke
      But Americans won't know
      What SKY TV is

      For more clarity
      Replace with US channel
      such as HBO
      --
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    2. Re:Japanese art... by dominicarkwright · · Score: 4, Funny

      Funny Brit add-on:
      ITV Digital had
      the rights. But folded.

  43. Re:I've got your challange right here... by _xeno_ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Junkyard to fight spam
    So the spammers must fight back
    Then it's Junkyard Wars.

    --
    You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
  44. Love Haikus by Resseguie · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I see your face
    Emotion floods over me
    Wait, I mean lotion.

    That night we kissed,
    I couldn't get over it
    You gave me mono.

    I hunger for you
    Only you satisfy me
    Make me some dinner.

    You are like a dream
    In the morning, I awake
    And I forget you.

    Your love was a gift
    A fine, cherished present, you
    Indian Giver!!!

    (I wish I could claim to have written these. One of my old roommates came up with several pages of "Love Haikus".)

  45. spam thy nature is wrath by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    processed sow in lard!!!

    inbox filled with fake pig parts!!!

    my blood boils with wrath!!!!



    and a cleansing scream for good measure: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

    Note: I found it more amusing before the "Lamenes Filter" forced me to remove my all caps from the haiku...damn anti-satire filters. What happened to free speech...let the anti-socials yell, damnit. =)

  46. Windows User's Lament (Re:Typical Slashdot Haiku) by PRickard · · Score: 3, Funny

    A file that big?
    It might be very useful.
    But now it is gone.

    Chaos reigns within.
    Reflect, repent, and reboot.
    Order shall return.

    Yesterday it worked
    Today it is not working
    Windows is like that.

    First snow, then silence.
    This thousand dollar screen dies
    so beautifully.

    With searching comes loss
    and the presence of absence:
    "My Novel.doc" not found.

    The Tao that is seen
    Is not the true Tao, until
    You bring fresh toner.

    Windows NT crashed.
    I am the Blue Screen of Death.
    No one hears your screams.

    Stay the patient course
    Of little worth is your ire
    The network is down

    A crash reduces
    your expensive computer
    to a simple stone.

    Three things are certain:
    Death, taxes, and lost data.
    Guess which has occurred.

    You step in the stream,
    but the water has moved on.
    This page is not here.

    We wish to hold the whole sky,
    But we never will.
    We are out of memory

    Serious error.
    All shortcuts have disappeared.
    Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

    (No, I didn't write this, but I thought it was worth using here. Original author unknown.)â

    --

    == Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign ====

  47. My haiku contribution to this duscussion: by smartfart · · Score: 2, Funny
    I learned 'bout haiku
    In spring of two thousand two.
    I'll forget it soon.

    Heh.

  48. Spam Haikus by myawn · · Score: 2, Funny
    I received these years ago; unfortunately with no attribution. So I can't credit the real writer

    Blue can of steel
    What promise do you hold?
    Salt flesh so ripe

    Can of metal, slick
    Soft center, so cool, moistening
    I yearn for your salt

    Twist, pull the sharp lid
    Jerks and cuts me deeply but
    Spam, aah, my poultice

    Silent, former pig
    One communal awareness
    Myriad pink bricks

    Clad in metal, proud
    No mere salt-curing for you
    You are not bacon

    And who dares mock Spam?
    You? you? you are not worthy
    Of one rich pink fleck

    Like some spongy rock
    A granite, my piece of Spam
    In sunlight on my plate

    Little slab of meat
    In a wash of clear jelly
    Now I heat the pan

    Oh tin of pink meat
    I ponder what you may be:
    Snout or ear or feet?

    In the cool morning
    I fry up a slab of Spam
    A dog barks next door

    Pink tender morsel
    Glistening with salty gel
    What the hell is it?

    Ears, snouts and innards
    A homogeneous mass
    Pass another slice

    Old man seeks doctor
    "I eat Spam daily", he says.
    Angioplasty

    Highly unnatural
    The tortured shape of this "food"
    A small pink coffin

    Pink beefy temptress
    I can no longer remain
    Vegetarian

    --
    Subscribers can see articles in the future? So what? Everyone gets to see them in the future.
  49. Spammers are from USA by rickymoz · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Get rid of your debts"! "University Degree"! Sounds US to me!

  50. Example of Tanka by rworne · · Score: 4, Funny

    (Excuse the English representation of Japanese)

    He nari totte
    ada to omou na
    morobi to yo
    bu-u to naritotte
    hotoke nari keri

    Translation(rough):
    When you fart
    do not feel embarrassed
    when you go *poot*
    you become like Budda

    --
    I tried every decent and legal way I could think of to resolve the issue w/the business before I rented the chicken suit
  51. Nigerian Haiku (count the syllables) by floydigus · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am writing to you from a government agency in Nigeria. You were recommended to me as an excellent businessman. Please to offer your advice on my haiku

    5 million bucks
    Help
    We need your western business knowledge

    greedy fools you are
    would auction own grandmother
    on bloody eBay

    in name of jesus
    whom your honour so closely
    resemble. thank you

    --

    All things in moderation; including moderation

  52. Slashdot Haiku, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    all your base are
    belong to us, pour hot grits
    for great justice

  53. Haiku to spam by MsWillow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is it spam or not?
    Is the haiku in the text?
    Either way, it's spam

    --

    Lemon curry?
  54. One more for the road... by smartfart · · Score: 2, Funny

    How you gentlemen!!
    All your base belong to us.
    You know what you doing.

  55. oh great, haiku spam by peteshaw · · Score: 5, Funny

    are you lonely guy
    click here for the pheromones
    women will go crazy

    penis too little
    buck up, gullible person
    this lotion will help

    tired of debt? rejoice!
    now all your worries are gone
    (we are a non-profit)

    psssst! Remember me?
    I'm naked hot and horny
    click for all nude pics

    --
    www.avacal.com -- the home page of pete shaw
  56. Error 575: Clue not found by isomeme · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spam stopper based on
    copyright, SMTP
    ignorance. Yeah, right.

    --
    When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
  57. obligatory troll by bilbobuggins · · Score: 5, Funny

    GNU is for hippies
    FreeBSD is dying
    Score negative 1

  58. Re:Next high tech job: by CuteAlien · · Score: 2, Funny

    No more high tech job
    so i leave bad industrie
    writing haiku now

  59. Re:FM6 Haiku #1 by EvilAlien · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your Haiku is suck
    It makes baby Jesus cry
    But much less than Spam

    --
    perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
  60. Two most common haikus by Rui+del-Negro · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will probably be:

    millions satisfied,
    totally natural pill:
    enlarge your penis.


    (it even has a "natural" theme... sorta) and

    a special offer,
    a low interest mortgage.
    chance of a lifetime.


    RMN
    ~~~