Forced eBay ID Change?

From: Curt vendel <curt_at_atarimuseum.com>
Date: Wed Feb 4 15:04:45 2004

Well, I doubt thats gonna do any good as it seems someone from the inside is
feeding/selling user accounts, I've never used my email address anywhere on
ebay, yet I've received plenty of ebay related scammer emails with some
personal ebay only info contained within them....



Curt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marvin Johnston" <marvin_at_rain.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Forced eBay ID Change?


>
>
> Curt vendel wrote:
> >
> > They just don't want people directly talking to one another, God
forbid....
> > only through their controlling environment, sheeez people can't even
talk to
> > one another without evilbay watching over them.
>
> I think they are trying to make it harder to harvest email addresses.
> Kind of like hoping that people as incompetant as they, are doing the
> harvesting and can't find a way around it :). It is still legal AFAIK to
> use an email ID such as twerps_at_ebay_com.
>
> Dwight, I have some *strong* opinions about the way ebay effectively
> took advantage of those of us who helped promote the site, and then
> screws them :)!!!
Received on Wed Feb 04 2004 - 15:04:45 GMT