Steve wrote:

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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:19:20 -0400, "leonard"
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Charles,

E-bay now has an internal message system that they use to confirm
messages.It goes like this they email you a message to your email address
and your internal ebay message center at the same time.If you don't get
both, then the email message if fake.
that way they no longer try to stop fake messages on the web(to time
consuming and expensive)


Len



so now the spammers have to get to work on hacking the ebay message
system....
I've given up using personal eMail when buying and selling on eBAY and only
use the eBay message system. Reason being that ISPs have introduced spam
traps in response to the spam plague, and users don't maintain/manage you
end up chasing comms round and round trying to get in touch.

Easy solution for me--no timely response, no bid...