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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 ;)
Haiku not Chinese
It is Japanese Art Form
Flowers bathe in Sun
Buzzkill Likes to Inform.
(For those who don't know: haiku is three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, in that order.)
From nmhu.edu:
HAIKU - (high-coo)
The haiku is a three-line, seventeen syllable, unrhymed poem, which uses nature as its primary focus. The Haiku captures a moment in nature or in life and freezes it with disciplined language. Each reader then thaws the message, the picture that has been painted by words, and brings the scene to life.
17 syllable, 3 lines
Line 1 5 syllables
Line 2 7 syllables
Line 3 5 syllables
Come to the University of Mars! Classes starting soon!
Displaying limited brains
May be quoted thus:
Habeas in fact
means "let us have" and no more
and not "evidence"
They are thinking of
"writ of habeas corpus"
"Let's have the body"
Nitpick mode now off
Let those who frequent this board
Now resume to speak.
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute chat with the average voter."
--Winston Churchill
read the article
mystery revealed to you
poem placed in header
Who said Freedom was Fair?
i forgot to add the tags
made ass of myself
should read:
you missed the point
haiku is copyrighted
same one can be sent
spammers will get sued
if they do not comply
with copywright notice
I never said I was smart, I just said I was smarter than you
Haiku that is not
rhyme scheme is 5, 7, 5
now learn this *you* must
Five-seven-and-five
Aren't nearly enough words
To explain oneself.
The Habeas mark contains a three-line haiku protected by copyright law. Six other lines contain the copyright and trademark notices and other trademark protected information.... If senders fail to meet the criteria, they could be sued for trademark and copyright infringement, Mitchell said.
Basically, they're using copyright law to replace a non-existant spam law. If your header contains their copyrighted haiku, then you're not sending spam and you're allowed through. If you use the haiku header and you're still spam, you're violating their rules and are sued for copyright infringement.
Cute strategy, especially the part where they piggyback on the geek affection for gratuitous haiku, but it's built upon the (frankly) naive idea that their subscribers can get everyone they want to get email from to play along. It basically turns your entire flow of email into an "opt-in" list. It's nice that you can sue spammers with forged headers for copyright infringement, but that's not what's going to happen; what will happen is you'll get a "unknown sender" folder chock-full of spam and a few useful e-mails from people who don't know or don't care how to use the haiku header, and you'll still have to sort through it by hand every day.
The spammers won't need to forge their headers, unless (somehow) this tactic gets adopted by the entire Internet, including Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL. The inconvenience will be great enough that no one will want to play along anyway.
Haiku is actually a drinking game based on the larger form Tanka 5,7,5,7,7.
You write Haiku 5,7,5. Pass it to a friend. They take a shot of Sake and write 7,7, to make it a Tanka. It go so popular that it became its own form.
Works well with 2 way hand shaking.
Winter's frozen spam,
Delicate jelly of meat,
Router eat it all.
haiku lines have been unearthed
(thanks to i0lanthe)
Each line has a head
X-Habeas-SWE-n: where
n is 1, 2, 3
I can only guess
That "SWE" is sounded out "swee"
And "(tm)" sounds not.
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute chat with the average voter."
--Winston Churchill
the first line has five
the second line has seven
the last line has five
Murphy was an optimist.
Surprised that no one
has thus far not yet mentioned
the SPAM-KU archive
~N
A common mistake among English speakers is that in English, haiku would still be composed of seventeen syllables. It is not.
Here is a very good article on it (featuring my favorite haiku BTW).
It comes down to the semantics of English versus Japanese. Under English there is a much more constrictive syntax, thus the meaning of a phrase can change just by resorting the words (Japanese, OTOH, is more resilient). Why is this important? 17 syllables in English can carry much more meaning than 17 syllables in Japanese.
Most haiku authors agree that the rough mean in English should be 12 in three phrases. Of course that is just a starting point at best. One of Ezra Pound's better known haiku is 18 syllables in two lines. In the end haiku creation is not a rote process.
What is music when you despise all sound?