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(...) I'd really rather that you didn't. Especially individual peoples' private totals -- that's their business. Yes, someone could write a script to tally up how much each person is spending, but by nature it's not really public information. It (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Absolutely - I already cringe when Todd includes on his bills ("Pay up, ya deadbeat") what I spent on previous auctions. :-) Bruce (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Actually, because of the way that you have designed Auczilla, it is, by definition, public information. Not to say that the terms of use might include, or be made to include, an agreement by users that they won't gather such information using (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) No, you're mistaken. It's not public information. Each individual bid is publicly available information, yes. But to tally up each person's bids from publicly available information and then post that _new_ information (which is not publicly (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) I agree with that. Anonymizing the derivative data would solve that. It might even be a good idea to anonymize the bidding pages themselves. (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) That would probably solve the individual bidder portion, yes. (...) No, then the personal updates via e-mail would also have to be anonymized, otherwise anyone who wanted to try to tally up people's amounts could just get it from a big e-mail (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) One other thing, related: Many people browse the web listings -- or check in periodically -- from work or from a public place where they aren't able to get to their email, so in many cases, they need to be able to see their name, to know (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) That's an extreme case, but, no, I don't think their total in that case is public information. The fact that they're spending $1.00 each on those three lots is publicly available information, but if you add $1.00 + $1.00 + $1.00 and get $3.00, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) So if person A bids on 3 lots of the same piece, one right after the other, each for $1.00 each, the total of those 3 lots, $3.00, _isn't_ public information? Now granted, most people probably have bids spanning multiple pages, but I know (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) sure thing - that's why I asked in the first place. I could see it's possible you won't want this. :) Dan (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) I only cringe when Kristin sees what I spent on previous auctions. Steve (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Shhhhhhhh! I was hoping people could read between the lines and figure out why I was cringing - don't say the "wife" word! :-) Bruce (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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