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Mark;
The trouble is that Ebay makes people register in
order to ask questions and the like but , judging by what Jerry mentioned, they
still send through their nuisance e-mails. I used to get e-mail from these
clowns asking to buy my car whenever I posted a parts ad. Now I just add a post
script stating that the car is not for sale, least of all to anyone sight
unseen who has a poor command of the English language.
So far it has worked so I do believe that they are
going through the ads manually and reading them, however many of the more
advaced spammers use a harvesting program to gather e-mail
addresses from other people's websites. Maybe one of the webmonsters
can say for sure whether the ad pages are secure from this sort of thing
but I always worry about those jerks plucking my e-mail address from
there. For example when I post an ad I have to include a working email
address such as monkeypuzzle1@xxxxxxx which the
spammer's programing can recognize. If I spell it out as
monkepuzzleoneatshawdotca; a human reading it can figure it out, a
harvester can't, but the website won't accept it.
Best Regards
Arran Foster
1954 Imperial Newport
Needing A Left Side Tailight Bezel and other trim
parts.
1975 Chrysler Newport
Can't wait to rip out the smog crap.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 7:42
PM
Subject: Re: IML: scams
Maybe you have something there. I'm against limiting who views
the ads, but perhaps we could set up a system to register (for free) anyone
who wants to reply to an ad???
This would mean masking or not putting
your e-mail address in an ad, if you're selling. It could only be gotten from
the administrator after the buyer gives his info???
Any opinions on
this, technical or otherwise? Would it stop it? Maybe if they have to go
through that extra step they won't bother (i really think a lot of these are
computer generated and only copy in the heading on our ads-- nobody actually
sits there and writes them--??)
Mark M
On Sunday, December 19,
2004, at 08:37 PM, Alex Ferch wrote:
Other
groups seem to have a way of limiting access to parts of the site to members
only. Perhaps this could be done? Granted it may negatively affect sales for
those of you that would be limiting your exposure to IML members only. At
least if a person was looking to scam somebody, they would have to at least
go through the trouble of registering before having access to the postings.
Well, it's not much of a thought, but it's all I've got. Alex 63
Crown
Mark
McDonald wrote:
Dear Harold,
We all get them. It's irritating
but I just ignore them. It is a public site, so anyone can view the ads and
send these e-mails. I wish there was a way we could stop them, but I don't
know how. Maybe if we all reply at least once to let them know we're onto
the scam they'll give up (not likely).
Mark M
On Sunday,
December 19, 2004, at 08:50 PM, Harold Peek wrote:
I would like to
know why it is that every time I try to sell my Imperial on this site I get
many e-mails from people who just want to rip me off. If they are not from
the members of this site how do they get the info. In two years I have
recived two checks from people who think I was born yeaterday. Is this a
problem for anyone? Or is it just me? I would like some feed back. Thank you
Pete.
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