The Register is reporting the first win by Habeas in the fight against spam. Habeas is a company helping to stop spam by identifying which messages aren't spam. Users can sign up and put the text of a copyrighted haiku into all their messages. By signing up you agree that you will not use this to send spam.
"The system worked exactly as designed," Mitchell said in a statement. "We filed the lawsuit as soon as we received and verified the complaints, and Mr. Heller immediately stopped using our warrant mark, and it's safe to say that he will never use it again." [The Register]
Pretty damn cool. I signed up with Habeas a few months ago, I actually have my mail set to color-code messages that have the Haiku in it. So far though, no spam with it has reached me.
