Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ham (e-mail)

Ham (e-mail) was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to redirect to Spam (e-mail).

I don't think you can really say any more about Ham that is already in the article, thus it can never grow beyond being a substub. As the word is mostly used in conjunction with spam, I suggest that the article is merged into Spam and redirected. David Johnson 01:14, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect only: It's a dictdef of a very uncommonly used contrastive.  A merge would take 30 seconds, I guess, but the loss of "ham is not spam" wouldn't be a crying shame. Geogre 02:50, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, add info to spam if really neccesary. Irrelevant, rarely used niche term, not encyclopedic, no possibility for article expansion. - Vaelor 04:45, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's that uncommon: I've often seen it in discussions of spam filtering and email classification. But be that as it may, I don't see how it can be more than a dictdef, or how there could be anything relevant at this article which wouldn't fit better in Spam, so I vote delete. I've just added the definition to the article on spam. Pnot 07:00, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge into Spam, and change the link on Ham (disambiguation) to refer there, then delete. - Andre Engels 13:29, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge into Spam. ^^^^^^ What they said ^^^^^. --MaxPower 19:40, 2004 Nov 22 (UTC)
 * Delete. Cribcage 19:29, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Can anyone provide evidence that this term is actually used to refer to email? &mdash;tregoweth 06:37, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

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