hmmm, could'nt you check for the first few words of the haiku (should be covered under fair use), and as you know the length of the haiku generate a hash of the next length of haiku characters, the check if it matches the hash of the haiku? could be a way to get the benefit without a licence. might be too slow to generate the hashes though....
-----Original Message----- From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 August 2002 15:29 To: James-Dev Mailing List Subject: Habeas porkus (anyone want to write this?) http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54645,00.html "A hidden scrap of copyrighted poetry embedded in e-mails will be used to guarantee that any message containing the verse is spam free. And if spammers dare to hijack the haiku, they will be aggressively sued for copyright infringement. The service is being offered by "Habeas," a new spam-filtering service (http://www.habeas.com/) headed by anti-spam activist and attorney Anne P. Mitchell." This was discussed a bit on NANAE (news:news.admin.net-abuse.email) today, and elsewhere. No one really knows if this is going to be successful; some folks hope so, others are cynical. But it would be easy enough to support if someone has a few minutes to code it, and doing so might create more mindshare for James. Anyone want to write the matcher for this thing? It would be very simple to code. Just look for and match the headers listed in their FAQ, and here: http://www.habeas.com/support/install.htm It is free for use to individuals and ISPs, $0.01 (max $3000/month) to legitimate commercial senders, and there is no charge to use it for filtering. Someone could also write a simple tagging mailet, but to actually use THAT, people would have to fill out a license form (even for a free license). --- Noel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
