tedster - 8:40 pm on Dec 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

How do they define spam btw?

I was amused to see the word in a patent application with no formal definition. I wonder if the management at Hormel are also amused.

The closest thing I can see to a definition is this:

[0006] Some spam pages are documents that have little if any meaningful content, but instead comprise collections of popular words and phrases, often hundreds or even thousands of them; these pages are sometime called "keyword stuffing pages." Others include specific words and phrases known to be of interest to advertisers. These types of documents (often called "honeypots") are created to cause search engines to retrieve such documents for display along with paid advertisements.