Ebay SNAFU

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Date: Thu Apr 24 22:56:01 2003

Hello Marvin,

What's the url to the archive?

> Several of us scrolled the board so that URL was no longer
> available for public viewing ... and ended up getting suspended for it.

Seems like you were doing eBay a favor by doing that.

> and ended up getting suspended for it.

Sure wasn't the first time eBay suspended someone on the DNF board.
It's only temporary, I hope?




At 07:18 PM 4/24/03 -0700, you wrote:
>With all this talk about the ebay DNF board, just thought some of you
>would like to know what is going on there. Basically, a number of people
>(10 or so that I know of), myself included, were suspended today from
>posting on any of the boards. Seems that a *MAJOR* SNAFU on their part
>last night left open a database that documented the complaints that were
>being generated by (I think) the Report Button; that URL got posted on
>the DNF Board. That database included *who* generated the complaint, and
>several DNFers started browsing the database to find out who the
>snitches are. Several of us scrolled the board so that URL was no longer
>available for public viewing ... and ended up getting suspended for it.
>
> From my standpoing, this further verifies comments I've made about the
>inept ebay management! Some people from the media have been contacted,
>so you may be hearing more about this :).
Received on Thu Apr 24 2003 - 22:56:01 BST