P3D Back from the dead

[Tom Deering <tmd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Ebay does not allow solicitation of  "for sale" products...by outside
>entities contacting ebay buyers....but I wonder if there was a way to
>get all the email addresses of the bidders...for mass e-mailings, to
>give them a resource page for stereo....any ideas....it would sure be a
>great boost in NSA membership...as I used to track Ebay bidders.
>About opne yeaR ago...I caculated overr a one month period of
>time...that over 100 new email name  bid on stereo items....can you
>imagin how many do now?


The idea described above is forbidden by eBay.

Section 5 of the eBay privacy policy states:  "eBay hereby grants to you a
license to use such information only for: (a) eBay-related communications
that are not *unsolicited commercial messages*"

This is a good rule.  The last thing anybody needs is more junk mail.  Why
would a fine organization like the NSA want to get involved with spamming,
anyway?

If a person wanted information about 3D clubs, they'd use a search engine
and find them.  If they can figure out eBay, they can figure out a search
engine.


(I sent this email earlier, but it was rejected because someone quietly
removed me from this list.  I don't know who or why.  But for some reason,
I have been added back just as silently.)



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