I had thought that the next chapter of the essay would be available today, but I started working on it and ended up nearly completely rewriting the majority of it. Funny how the prospect of actually publishing something like this can cause your standards to suddenly rise.

This was probably the oldest chapter in the work, and it's also the most foundational, so a re-write is probably a good idea. The only bad news is now I have to propogate some of the changes through the rest of the chapters. Bleh. Writing bigs things with lots of dependencies stinks sometimes; programs are much easier to deal with, at least the way I write them.

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I can't believe the number of searches for "What does spam stand for" I'm getting to my Spam Filtering's Last Stand piece. Hopefully this entry will override that one once this is indexed.

Apparently Google has nominated me to answer this question, so: "Spam" doesn't stand for anything. It's not an acronym. SPAM^TM is the name of a meat product by Hormel. Spam came to mean "junk email" by analogy to a Monty Python's Flying Circus skit, wherein a restaurant's good food is drowned out by the spam, much like good content is drowned by spam on the Internet.