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Habeas Seeks Poetic Justice for Trademarked Spam

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the better-living-through-haiku dept.

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.

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  1. spamspamspamspam by B3ryllium · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    spamspamspamspam ...

    Oh, and gobe is back in business! But I guess that's spam too, or at least off-topic.

    Slashdot needs SpamAssassin for comments :) If your comment triggers as 3.5 or higher, it should yell "YOU FAIL IT!" at the user. Automatic 3.0 points if you're an AC.

    1. Re:spamspamspamspam by usotsuki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Would certainly reduce the number of OT fr1st ps0ts (yeah, I'm guilty of that too)...

      -uso.

      --
      Dreams, dreams, don't doubt dreams, dreaming children's dreaming dreams. Sailor Moon SS
  2. Purpose of Spam by Alan+Holman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The purpose of spam has always been to annoy people so much that they'll go to your web-site, or buy your product. It's cheap advertising, and effective if done correctly; however, it's intrusive, and often pornographic, and therefore legal limits should be forced upon spammers. Me telling people about my anime web-site in virtually every post I make to Slashdot, I guess, falls into the category of spam; however, at least I'm not a) advertising porno. b) e-mailing you. c) e-mailing you badly composed haikus about porno! Some of the spam I get is just plain weird; it's like "let's play a fun game/at my pornographic site/so come in it's fun!" Seriously, I get stuff like that in my inbox. Kids have e-mail accounts, and they shouldn't be bombarded with that stuff, but they are. I remember when it used to be that when you turn eighteen, you start getting that kind of spam in your Hotmail (proof that Bill Gates sells e-mail addresses to spammers); however, it's not
    like that anymore. My seven year old brother Sam started a YAHOO! Mail account so that he could talk with his older brother, but now he's seen things on the net which -- well, to put it lightly, he's probably more aware of ...err...human nature... than I was at that age, all because of the evils of spammers. They should go to hell...the porno ones should go to hell, I mean. My anime site is rated PG.

  3. In Soviet Russia... by Sir_Bill_William_Jen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Spammers would be non-existant. No corporations thus no need for annoying advertisement. But internet would be banned too. No Internet = No Spam. Think about it.

    1. Re:In Soviet Russia... by jayspec462 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Soviet Russia
      Feel the zen; it is upturned
      Spammers haiku you.

      --
      $comment =~ s/($verb)\s+($noun)/IN SOVIET RUSSIA, $2 $1s YOU!/g;
    2. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Sir_Bill_William_Jen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Zen is religious..

      Marxist-Leninist are anti-organized religion.

      I bet they have a nice place in Siberia for scum like you!!!! :P

  4. all your base by wattersa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One time they told me
    All your base are belong to __
    Since then I've been scared.

  5. Re:$100 reward for information about a spammer by AndroidCat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't know if she'd take the money. On the other hand, a donation of Godiva might be acceptable. ;^)

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    One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.