Re: (idm) e-bay ethics

From wells
Sent Wed, May 26th 1999, 07:17

At 12:50 AM 5/26/99 -0500, jeff salamon wrote:
>
>uh, encouraged by _who_? i think it's explicitly against their stated
>rules. probably meets legal definition of fraud, in fact (tho good luck
>catching someone in the act).
>as for the question posed by the original poster: if it's a pal, tell
>him to cut it out. chances are, tho, you don't wanna go so far as to
>actually report him; friendship is based on a sense of security between
>two people that includes the ability to reveal one's shortcomings (even
>wrongdoings) knowing the confessee won't go and tattle (unless, of
>course, the transgression we're talking about is something profound,
>like murder, that blows the terms of the implicit contract out of the
>water). 
>if it's not a friend, tho, i say bring the hammer down on him.
>jeff

thank you dr. laura schlesinger.

- wells oliver / xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx.xxx