Hi, On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 02:10:17 -0500 (EST) Chuck Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think I received my first " Habeas SWE (tm)" email today and what do you > know, it's V|@gra spam. There's a lot of that going around today. My copy came from an open proxy in SBC netowrk space somewhere near Tulsa, OK: "Received: from adsl-65-64-51-68.dsl.tulsok.swbell.net (adsl-65-64-51-68.dsl.tulsok.swbell.net [65.64.51.68]) by chimmx05.algx.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ORCPT [EMAIL PROTECTED]); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:19:30 -0600 (CST)" > Can someone explain why HABEAS_SWE -8.0 was allowed to happen? [snip] Pretty simple: Habeas sues people who dilute their trademark and distribute their intellectual property without permission. See http://www.habeas.com/companyPressPR.html for people they've sued into compliance. It's generally a good ham sign. > It is a stupid idea in my opinion! [rant deleted] > This is cute... > http://www.habeas.com/company.html > "Habeas began as an ingenious solution to a newly discovered problem. One > evening, our chairman and founder was playing with SpamAssassin. While he > loved the fact that it filtered out unwanted emails, he noticed that some > valuable legitimate emails were getting mis-classified as spam and blocked > from his in-box. To solve the problem, he took a little poetic license and > dreamed up the Habeas haiku x-headers. Now we're a Palo Alto-based company > using poetry and the law to fight spam and help your wanted email get > through." > > Ingenious my ass! I expect them to be on fuckedcompany.com as another dot > bomb. Actually, Habeas has a pretty innovative strategy and it has worked fairly well for them and their customers until this week. I haven't seen any Habeas-marked spam since the company's inception, at least none in the last 8400 or so spams I have on file. Habeas' value is that they actually sue people who misuse their mark. Provided that their customers follow some basic rules on how to conduct a mass-mailing, the Habeas mark is usually a good indicator that the mail is legit (1 forged mark in 8400+ spams here or 0.012%.) Short answer: Someone's forging Habeas' mark, Habeas will track them down and sue them, the spammers will stop forging Habeas' mark, life goes on... -- Bob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
