Snipe S/W?

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Tue Dec 19 17:12:01 2000

On December 19, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > - Know who your friends are. If you find yourself constantly
> > coming up against the same person on stuff, send him or her
> > some email. Get to know the other person. Try to form some
> > sort of working relationship that facilitates communication
> > on a per-auction basis. Decide amongst yourselves who wants
> > or needs the item more. Concede once in a while. It's better
> > to have friends than enemies...and sometimes those friends
> > spot things that you may have missed.
>
> Not that I plan to turn you in (as long as you send me $100 within the
> next 2 weeks, e-mail me for my address :) but this practice is actually
> illegal.

  It's illegal to (for example) send my friend "sartoris1" email saying
"hey Doug I see you're bidding on that lot of DEC processor
handbooks...I really want 'em and was gonna bid, but if you really
want 'em I'll back off.."??

  Does that really constitute collusion? If so, then I believe this
is one instance in which the letter of the law doesn't faithfully
represent the spirit of the law.

          -Dave McGuire
Received on Tue Dec 19 2000 - 17:12:01 GMT