Haiku vs Spam

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @02:41AM 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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url by i0lanthe · 2002-08-20 02:57 · Score: 4, Interesting

Try h t t p
colon slash slash habeas
dot com. More info.

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It's A Whole New Paradigm by ackthpt · 2002-08-20 03:00 · Score: 2, Interesting

Trust no CEO
Venture capital sees spam
A proven model

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1. Re:It's A Whole New Paradigm by Jonathunder · 2002-08-20 04:21 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Haiku in headers
  Message goes through filter
  Otherwise blocked.
  
  To license haiku
  Sender must certify
  Email is not spam.
  
  For an ISP
  Or individual user
  The license is free.
  
  Businesses and
  Bulk email senders will pay
  Habeas a fee.
  
  Clever idea
  But it must be in wide use
  To ever do much good.
  
  Is there a patent
  Pending or applied for
  On this email tool?
But if this scheme works, I'll have no excuse... by LiberalApplication · 2002-08-20 03:17 · Score: 3, Interesting

Effective filters
Steal the light out of my day
Weep, I, for lost pr0n
I've got your challange right here... by toupsie · 2002-08-20 03:28 · Score: 3, Interesting

I challange comment posters to post only Haiku in this discussion ;)
I challenge the editors of Slashdot to quit posting crap like this. There is more going on in the world of SPAM prevention than the stupidity of adding Haikus to e-mail messages (great waste of bandwidth).
Maybe it passed by the editor's eyes that Apple has registered the trademark 'Junkyard' and has installed "sophisticated built-in junk mail filtering" into Mac OS X 10.2. Rumor is that Apple will be adding junk mail filtering software in their Mac OS X Server OS. Junkyard is the product name for this technology that is going to be added/tagged on to Mac OS X Server's version of Sendmail. If it is like Rendezvous, it will be open source and available to the Open Source Community.

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Re:fp by Graspee_Leemoor · 2002-08-20 03:37 · Score: 3, Interesting

ohayo ac
anata wa baka desu
arigatou gozaimasu!

graspee

PS- not sure with "desu" etc if the "u" counts, since it is written but not pronounced. Well, not pronounced in Tokyo anyway...
Re:Ignorance is beaming by Speare · 2002-08-20 06:39 · Score: 5, Interesting
You offer:
- "lynx slashdot.org --dump 2>/dev/null|grep haiku"
In syllables, it still works in Unix. Nicely done!
- lynx slashdot dot org
  dash dash dump, err to dev null,
  piped thru grep haiku
But a good haiku is a metaphor between man and nature, still crammed into the syllabic form.
- The Lynx hunts the weeds,
  ignoring all distraction,
  eyes only its prey.
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a haiku cycle by kbs · 2002-08-20 07:29 · Score: 4, Interesting

problem with having
semantic meaning haiku-
transmittal can fail.

haiku is supposed
to have a season, color
and an animal.

these lines do not have
the proper prerequisites
it is not artful.

so, that just defeats
the reason one writes haiku-
makes it mockery.

int'resting to note,
it says that the mail sender
certifies the mail.

violation for
using the trademark wrongly
is a simple suit.

this will only work
if the spammer is truthful;
not hiding headers.

it's interesting,
that they specifically use
the haiku format.

possibilities
are quite endless. what next?
using sonnet form?

-k

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yours,
kbs