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  Re: FA: eBay - Minifigs, mostly Castle (follow up on weirdness)
 
(...) snip link (...) Okay, I'm replying to my own post, but something weird happened and I'm hoping someone here can help me understand. About an hour after posting my auction announcement (see above) the following email appeared in my inbox: (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: FA: eBay - Minifigs, mostly Castle (follow up on weirdness)
 
(...) or... (...) It is spam for sure, I wouldn't reply if I were you, that way the sender can check if your mailadress is in use or not. If it's because of Lugnet.... I don't know. Saskia (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: FA: eBay - Minifigs, mostly Castle (follow up on weirdness)
 
In lugnet.market.auction, Alan Findlay wrote: ... (...) ... There's several services now in effect that block e-mail that is computer generated (aka spam) as opposed to human generated. The way these services work is they reply to all incoming (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: FA: eBay - Minifigs, mostly Castle (follow up on weirdness)
 
Stefan? Did you also get the mail Alan is talking about? I just did.... (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: FA: eBay - Minifigs, mostly Castle (follow up on weirdness)
 
I got this too.... and a reminder 24 hours later.... I just assumed it was e-mail harvesting. ;) (...) Good idea. Scott A Have you had a look at Arthurs Seat Yet? (2 URLs) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
 
  Re: FA: eBay - Minifigs, mostly Castle (follow up on weirdness)
 
I'm not so sure. Is it possible that eBay sent the guy an e-mail on your behalf? If this is the case, then it is probably an anti-spam measure. One of my professors uses a similar technique to limit the number of e-mails sent to him. Look at (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: FA: eBay - Minifigs, mostly Castle (follow up on weirdness)
 
"Saskia van Doesburg" <info@doesdigitals.nl> wrote in message news:HpA0xA.1xBF@lugnet.com... (...) Yes. I think the guy has requested to be notified of any posts in this topic. I clicked the link, we'll see what happens. Stefan. (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.general)

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