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Spamming is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on July 4, 2005.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
January 19, 2004	Refreshing brilliant prose	Kept
January 4, 2006	Featured article review	Demoted

Current status: Former featured article

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This article has been mentioned by a media organization:

"Tech Tuesday: Stop Spam & Spyware". Yahoo! News. January 10, 2005.

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment[edit]

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Dorisdd. Peer reviewers: Dorisdd.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 09:55, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

General costs[edit]

I would like to delete this entire subsection. It amounts to a complicated explanation of something simple - externalising costs.