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Re: [OM] eBay advice given

Subject: Re: [OM] eBay advice given
From: "Dirk Wright" <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:53:26 EDT
>I strongly recommend using an "alias" for your eBay ID and letting 
people
>request your email address from eBay.  Spammers turn automated "bots" 
loose
>to scoop up email addresses left out in the open (just as they have 
done
>with the USENET newsgroups for years).  You may still get a little 
even
>with an alias, but you will get an unending deluge of SPAM if you 
leave
>your email address in the open.
>

That hasn't happened to me. Of course, I'm not very active on the site.

Be seeing you.


Dirk Wright

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