Ebay Cracks Down on Spammers
It took ages and hundreds of thousands of complaints, but auction site eBay has finally lifted a finger towards discouraging the low-life spammers who trawl their site sucking up e-mail addys to add to their victim lists.
The company has now developed a scheme (simple enough to have been implemented ages ago, but we digress) to conceal the e-mail addresses of those offering goods. As things now stand, any registered user can learn another's e-mail addy merely by clicking on a seller's or a bidder's user name.
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