On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:18:32AM -0600, Igor Chudov wrote: > This Habeas is some sort of a braindead business idea to insert an > unauthenticated header in bodies of "legitimate" emails coming from > their customers, to assure spam filters that the email is legitimate.
The original Habeas SWE was a Haiku that customers would put into their mail headers, and the theory went that if someone put the headers in spam, they could be sued through normal copyright law which is easier to deal with than just spamming which isn't necessarily illegal in a lot of places. While an interesting try, yes, it did ultimately fail due to the difficulties of tracking down people and then carrying out lawsuits globally, along with the amount of time needed to get the infringement to stop. Habeas now uses a DNS whitelist, like most other mail accredidation services. Whether or not people think accredidation services are useful is another discussion, and I'm sure people's opinions vary wildly on the topic. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: Bender: "You know the secret of traditional robot cooking? Start with a good high-quality oil, then eat it."
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