[78-L] eBay Censorship

[Mike Harkin]

Censorship can be totally capricious.  That's part of its charm, at least for the censors.Probably how many of them get their jollies in a dull, boring job.

Mike in Plovfiv.

--- On Sat, 12/29/12, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] eBay Censorship
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, December 29, 2012, 9:38 PM

I just had a request from an eBay customer which included an e-mail address and 
I had no trouble using it to reply to him directly.

dl

On 12/22/2012 9:49 PM, marimbamoods at comcast.net wrote:
> i just contacted an eBay 78 seller to ask for a photo of the reverse label of a record he listed. he replied promptly, requesting my emil address so he could email the photo to me.
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> when i replied to him and included my email address, my message was blocked by eBay with the following statement:
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> "For your safety, eBay does not allow the exchange of email addresses in member to member communications . This protects both buyers and sellers by keeping a track record of communications. It also helps ensure that transactions happen on eBay so buyers and sellers are covered by eBay protection programs.
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> Please remove the email address and resend your message."
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> in an attempt to avoid eBay's censorship, i then tried to send the info this way:
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> 1) marimbamoods
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> 2) @
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> 3) comcast
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> 4) .net
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> once again, eBay blocked my message with the same policy statement.
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> i did then manage to successfully get the harmless info through the eBay sphincter-block, but only by sending four separate messages - each containing one individual part of the above "code."
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> is that bizarre or what? talk about big brother . . .
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> david harvey
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