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To: 10K a day who wrote (6862)	6/4/2001 1:46:02 PM
From: geoffrey Wren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

I doubt "no click through" will work. Yahoo apparently makes some feeble effort to control SPAM by screening hot links, but the SPAMMERs have evaded that easily. They post their messages and then add such things as "add "com" to my name and come to our site and check us out on how to make $1m/year day trading stocks!!" There is even a service that gives you an innocuous looking URL that is programmed to just click through to your real URL. In other words, sellers can provide two half parts of a URL, or provide enough information that the buyer can, if he wishes, do a google check and find the seller. Now I suppose EBAY could be tougher on sellers than YAHOO is, but I think there are ways the sellers can continue the practice.