"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
This is a
rather common scam that has been going on for about a year or
so. It has spread to PayPal, and is one of the rationalizations that
ebay is using to force all users to change from email address IDs to an
alias. If Ebay is doing anything about these scams, they are keeping it
a secret.
eBay is forcing users to change from an email address to an alias? This
is
the first I've heard about it. I know they won't let you get a new account
and use your email address as they want to control peoples ability to reach
you. I've not seen anything that says that I have to change mine to an
alias. Personally I like that people are able to easily find my email
address on eBay.
Jerome Fine replies:
I have a comment and a question!
I have an OLD e-mail address from an ISP that I cancelled 2 years ago.
It still seems to be active since I can send an e-mail to the address:
Jerome Fine <jhfine(a)idirect.com>
and it does not get rejected. I used that e-mail address with eBay when
I first signed up with eBay to request information and send in bids. Of
course, I can't pick up any e-mails that eBay sends, let alone the 30 spam
a day that I was receiving at the end, but my old e-mail address still seems
to be acting as a bit bucket since I just sent a test message to it.
AND as far as eBay is concerned, my user id is still <jhfine(a)idirect.com>
and I can still ask a question of a vendor by supplying:
user id: jhfine(a)idirect.com
password: xxxxxx
so, it must all still be working as far as eBay is concerned and eBay still
accepts and allows an OLD user ID with an @ character.
Question: As far as the OLD ISP is concerned, is there any way that
a user can at least pick up e-mails that are still sent to that old address
as long as the ISP is still accepting them?
Question: Is there anything as far as practice goes on the internet that
requires an ISP who accepts an e-mail (i.e. without rejecting it) to at
least forward that e-mail to the old original person even if that person
no longer has a paid for account?
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail
address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk
e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be
obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the
'at' with the four digits of the current year.
