Habeas Seeks Poetic Justice for Trademarked Spam

Remember the company who started using haiku to fight spam? According to a news.com article, it will now be tested in court. Habeas is suing two internet marketers, saying that they've included Habeas' haiku in their mail, thereby lowering their SpamAssassin score by 6 points, but allegedly violating the trademark. It's interesting because the end effect of this will be more or less spam, but it's based on trademark law. It'll also be interesting to see how well this holds up across national boundaries.

Comments

Trademarked Haiku

[idfrsr]

I have trademarked this
Use it at your own expense
I'll see you in court

Re:Poetic justice

[Anonymous Coward]

But what I want to know know is th-th-this: Will it be enforced by the Poetic Justice League of America?

Reminds me of Coy

[bahwi]

perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Coy ...blah...blah...blah...
cpan> exit
bash-2.05b$ perl -e 'use Coy; die();';

-----
Lao Tse departing
beside a dam. A
singing lark. A dove.
-----

Bankei's commentary...

Died

(Sayings of -e: line 1.)

Ahh, at least perl can die a nice death. Check the man page too, all in Haiku.

Now if only PHP and GCC had this. Then I'd be truly happy and transcending. Or at least able to procrastinate a bit longer.

Re:Fine the *originating* companies

[Chymaera]

Ugh...:(

Fools who don't preview
Should never be modded up--
Should leap from tall cliffs.

embolden?

[DataSquid]

It's a perfectly cromunlent word.

ode to spam

[1nv4d3r]

I love to get spam
you can block it all you want
meanwhile, my dick grows

habeas business plan

[1nv4d3r]

step one is haiku
step two is vast deep unknown
step three is profit!

Re:habeas business plan

[cperciva]

step one is haiku
step two is many lawyers
step three is profit.

Why put the poem in the extended headers?

[1nv4d3r]

haiku in header
not viewed by your Aunt Tillie
she won't know to sue

Re:How to beat the spam detectors

[Dwedit]

Mod parent down! Scum DO read slashdot! Censor this post!