Todd L. Sherman/KB4MHH <afn09444@afn.org> pressed random keys until the following was produced: > Bummer. That's what I get waiting three days to check back in the > newsgroups. Probably too late to try to get it now. Well, you can always set up an agent on eBay to watch for keywords, and email you if anything comes up. Worth setting up. > In this particular case the "spam" definition is technically incorrect. > It was NOT an e-mail totally off topic, using all sorts of fun HTML, script, > and Active-X magic, which collected cookies and installed "spyware" > surrepetiously on everyones machines, and asked everyone if they'd like to > get 30 days free use of a sex site depicting live nude women performing > [fill in the blank], for example. THAT ... IS, and would be worth a > reporting of, "unwanted spam." If it was his machine, it's spam. Doesn't have to have the ingredients you mention to be spam. > Also, this person's response was in direct response to another > genealogist's query over the existence of fiche readers for genealogical > use. It's genealogy. It's miscellaneous genealogy. It fits in here just > as easily. ...And the gentleman complaining is being annoyingly rediculous, > himself, and worthy of it's own "reporting" in and of itself. What, you're going to tell Bob's ISP that he reported a spammer? > The first complaint was far too much as it was, and served absolutely no > purpose or point whatsoever. In your opinion, based on a ludicrous definition of spam. > To Keith...thanks. And I appreciate people like you trying to be of real > service and a real, kind, and legitimite HELP to other genealogists like > that. Nobody asked you to keep an eye out for stuff like that for other > people and you did it out of pure kindliness - with no recompense asked. You > deserve KUDOS, not harrassments. I hope this negative experience does not > cause you to stop doing just that all because of one negative person. If it's his auction, make that two negative people, oh, and eBay's acceptable use policy. Dave Hinz