From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

If there's no auction number associated with a feedback, then it dates back
to the era when anyone could feedback on anyone else unrestricted.  Tying
the comments to the relevant transaction and allowing only bidder/seller to
comment cleaned up things considerably.

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:3eb7fcd9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I forwarded the link to a friend with a serious Ebay jones and a suitably
> dada sense of humor.  A friend of *his* said that before late 2000 Ebay
> didn't check the commenter against the transaction, or against any bidding
> or selling activity.  You didn't have to be in the game to comment.  We
> probably have a rare artifact here, and it is funny.
>
>

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