Delivery Haikus

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…

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