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Haiku vs Spam

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-must-be-august dept.

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. [Slightly OT] nitpick time... by billbaggins · · Score: 5, Informative
    The linked article
    Displaying limited brains
    May be quoted thus:
    Habeas is a Latin term used in legal proceedings that means "evidence" or "to show proof."
    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
    1. Re:[Slightly OT] nitpick time... by Bob+Violence · · Score: 5, Informative
      Conjugate rightly.
      Those endings are important.
      This is what you said:

      Habeas in fact
      means "let us have" and no more
      and not "evidence"

      But that's not correct.
      "Habeas" means "you should have."
      It's second person,

      singular, or so
      I learned in Latin classes
      many autumns past.