As we mentioned earlier Habeas is being bought out by ReturnPath.
While they’ve not actually used it for several years the thing that Habeas will be remembered for is their introduction of the Haiku form of poetry into email headers:
winter into spring
brightly anticipated
like Habeas SWE ™
How better to commemorate that than with some email themed Haiku?
Some email delivery folks have provided these to start you off:
Goodbye Habeas.
What have you left? Just footprints
in snow as spring comes.
Commercial Email,
Confirmed and opted-in,
Clicked and opened.
Creative content,
If not blocked or bulked,
Then inbox-receiv’d.
spam is really dumb
it makes our lives really hard
it will never leave
spammers are dumber
especially if client
need to be fired
MickC has one too, a “bye-ku“.
Can you do any better? Bonus points for a 5, 7, 5 syllable pattern and some reference to a time of year…
goodbye habeus
winter of your discontent
was the misspelling
I tried a haiku
It did not work out so well
Let’s try something else
It took Habeas
Millions to figure out that
Haikus don’t pay off
Now is the spring of
our content; Habeas and
Return Path as one
(please note - deliverability itself has seven syllables!)
a couple smart alec ones for the archive..
Ah hyperbole
Pay for my reputation
Poor fodder for fools
A marriage of cash
Doth not a white angel make
Unless u naive
Habeas is bought
My heart sings for all involved
…I still live Chuck free
Habeas Huddle?!
Whimsically embarrassed
…I say, “Bye, Erick”
To my friendly foe
As promised, a public note
Grain of salt is fun
Always in good taste
That is the mindset for me
Onward and happy
Mott. Dierdre. Blumberg.
One big company some day?
Only time will tell.
(dj at bronto)
This is my favorite haiku. It’s from Robert Hunter. I think it speaks to this situation, and many others in life, well.
Ripple in still water
when there is no pebble tossed
nor wind to blow