on 9/1/02 7:44 AM, Barrie Robinson at barrier@bconnex.net wrote:
> The reason may be that the car in the photo is not the car on sale - Thus
> they do not want someone asking about "that car with the number ABC 1234".
>
Oh, in that case it would just be fraud, or at least misrepresentation...
> At 10:40 AM 8/30/02 -0700, Max Heim wrote:
>> on 8/30/02 7:39 AM, David F. Darby at darby@tri-lakes.net wrote:
>>
>>> BTW, here is a stupid question, but why do people block out license numbers
>>> (as in this example) on internet photos? What on Earth do they think they
>>> are protecting against? Just curious.
>>>
>>> David
>>
>> Yeah, that was my question. As if anybody driving down the street can't read
>> your license number... goofy. I think maybe they are extrapolating from the
>> general reluctance to post VIN numbers on the web (which is also paranoid,
>> IMO). I mean, who's more likely to steal your car -- some guy on the
>> Internet a thousand miles away, or somebody in your home town who sees your
>> car on the street?
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Max Heim
>> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>>
>
> Regards
> Barrie
>
> Barrie Robinson - barrier@bconnex.net
>
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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