[SpamCop-List] Habeas

[Kerry Nice]

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> In article <mailman.1029900380.4394.spamcop-list>, hEADcRASH <hEADcRASH> writes:
> 
>>Has anybody [else] checked out these guys yet?
>>
>><http://www.habeas.com/>
> 
> 
> What basis would we have for doing so, when you don't post ths slightest
> hint of what it is about ?   Do you value our time so lightly ?

The basic concept is that you include a copyrighted haiku poem in the 
headers, people let anything with this in the header by their filters. 
Anybody who uses the header that isn't registered, i.e. spammers, Habaes 
goes after them for copyright violations.

So, legit mailers, newsletters, etc would pay Habaes a fee and in 
return, the rest of the world would make an exception in the spamfilters 
for headers that look like:
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 <http://www.habeas.com/report/>,

I think it is an interesting concept and I figure I'll sign up for the 
free registration and put it in my headers.  It seems like it has 
potential if it hits critical mass.  But then again, how much will 
copyright violations mean for Chinese mailers and other places like that.