Ebay references

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Gil Carrick wrote:

> For whatever it's worth, when citing eBay auctions all that is necessary is
> the item number. In this case, 8701459056. It is very easy to find on any
> page and cut-n-paste into an email. A search for that number will find it
> quickly. Full URLs always get wrapped in an inconvenient place.

Indeed.  Now I wish someone would explain why eBay went from a nice, clean
and SANE URL to the big catastrophe they now make you link to.

> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Nimbus-Domesday-Video-Book_W0QQitemZ8701
> 459056QQcategoryZ4193QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

WTF!

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