Stupid ebay/amazon question

[Paul Lussier]

"Steven W. Orr" <steveo at syslang.net> writes:

> On Wednesday, Jun 28th 2006 at 11:13 -0400, quoth mike ledoux:
>
> =>On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:01:59AM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>> I just want to try to keep my question on track. Yes, it gets deleted in 
> =>> the appropriate fashion. The question is why does it appear after visiting 
> =>> ebay? I do not get the sheer number of these messages when I don't go to 
> =>> visit ebay.
> =>
> =>I'm guessing while you are at eBay browsing auctions, you probably
> =>run across at least a few that have been placed by spammers/phishers
> =>with embedded images, webbugs, cookies, etc.
>
> Bingo. I never thought of that. Thanks.

Which is why I a) never fill in e-mail address field on my browser,
and b) set the cookies option to "always ask".  If the cookie isn't
from the domain I'm directly connected to, it gets denied.  As does
anything from a system matching the regex ad*.*.* :)
-- 
Seeya,
Paul