Ebay switches from No to Yes..

For any of you who have an ebay account and have noticed ever since the day you signed up that your email inbox has began to fill up with junk mail, here is why.
Ebay has over 19 million members and for atleast 6 of these 19 million members, and any new members who signed up after the "Swtich" date, you're preferences were switched from No to Yes automatically. What this means is, on ebay there is a setting that you can select No or Yes to allowing ebay to give out your information to advertisers. Before they made the switch, it was automatically no, but now it is Yes and over 90% of ebay users don't know about this and that you can switch it back to no. Not only is it emails, its also phone calls and actual junk mail in your physical mail box. So for all you ebay users you might wanna change your setting and probably get a new email address because if it's like mine, 99% is junk mail and I had to delete it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/11/technology/11GEE2.html