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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.
This is just plain stupid. Not only are spammers using semi-senceable text, but most of the time my spam contains nothing but plain jibber jabber. I mean, just random misspelled words that dont make a fucking pint of sence.
May all hell be released upon the mastermind that controls this all, I hope the worst upon him from the bottom of my heart to all eternaty.