Copyrighted Haiku Delivers Spam Through Filters

An anonymous reader writes "Remember that antispam company that includes a copyrighted haiku (which I can't quote here due to copyright reasons...) in emails vouching for their nonspaminess and thus bypassing spamfilters? The idea is that a spammer using said haiku to get through spamfilters can be prosecuted under the more stringent copyright laws instead of the weaker antispam ones. Well it seems said haiku has lately been figuring in a large spam run trying to pitch the usual medical remedies for various unfortunate ailments. What do you think? Is it time to start filtering for haikus or will Habeas succeed in thwarting the spam attack?" We mentioned this brilliant anti-spam scheme last April.

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Example of a bounce back

[JumperCable]

The bastards evidently used my e-mail address as the spoofed sender for some of them (I don't think they like the fact that I report them to spam cop & the ftc). Their website points to www.pharmacourt.biz.

vvvvvvv bounceback example below vvvvvvvvvvv
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:09:15 -0600 (CST)
From: "Internet Mail Delivery" Add to Address Book
Subject: Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed
To: xxxx@xxxxxxx.com

This report relates to a message you sent with the following header
fields:

Return-path:
Received: from ims-ms-daemon.nlpmail02.prodigy.net.mx by
nlpmail02.prodigy.net.mx
(iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003))
id
(original mail from xxxxx@xxxxxxx.com); Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:09:15
-0600 (CST)
Received: from nlpproxy06 (nlpproxy06.prodigy.net.mx [148.235.52.96])
by nlpmail02.prodigy.net.mx
(iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003))
with ESMTP id for
kelvin@prodigy.net.mx; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:09:14 -0600 (CST)
Received: from d57-133-185.home.cgocable.net
(d57-133-185.home.cgocable.net [24.57.133.185])
by smtp.prodigy.net.mx (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21
(built Sep 8
2003)) with SMTP id ; Thu,
15 Jan 2004 20:06:16 -0600 (CST)
Received: from 230.152.186.144 by 24.57.133.185; Thu, 15 Jan 2004
18:01:32 +0400
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:57:32 +0400
From: xxxxxx xxxxxxxx
Subject: Want
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Di3t Pills Many M3ds Nexp
To: xxxxxx@prodigy.net.mx
Cc: xxx@prodigy.net.mx
Reply-to: xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
Message-id:
MIME-version: 1.0
X-Mailer: QuickMail Pro 1.5.4 (Mac)
Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary=--143802402998831
X-Priority: 5
X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring
X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated
X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm)
X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm)
X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this
X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas
X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant
X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this
X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to .

Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:

Recipient address: xxxxxxx@ims-ms-daemon
Original address: xxxxx@telmex.net.mx
Reason: Over quota

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Re:Hating Habeas' Haikus? Here's Help

[CVD1979]

Nice rip-off of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" :)