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Subject: 
Re: ebay and auczilla stats
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lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory
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lugnet.market.theory
Date: 
Wed, 1 Mar 2000 01:32:03 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Kevin Loch writes:
I agree with that.  Anonymizing the derivative data would solve that.

That would probably solve the individual bidder portion, yes.


It might even be a good idea to anonymize the bidding pages themselves.

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 update instead.  It would only make it a tiny bit
harder for someone to do, but it wouldn't prevent them from doing it.

Anyway, anonymizing auction listings is an evil thing in the first place
anyway.

--Todd



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  Re: ebay and auczilla stats
 
(...) 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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(...) 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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