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Re: ebay and auczilla stats
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lugnet.market.auction
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Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:42:04 GMT
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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.
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 certain data
mining tools.
However, so long as the high bidders names show up on publicly available
screens, and so long as lugnet users have memory inside their heads, it isn't
that hard to know about how much any individual has spent on our favorite
building system....
Will
I'm not sure which group follow-ups to this should go...
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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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| | Re: ebay and auczilla stats
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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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