On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 02:21:40 GMT, Robert Casey
wrote:

David Stinson wrote:

It's time once again for our annual count
of the descriptive words
made meaningless by overuse and abuse in Ebay titles.

I've heard that ebay has ruled out the use of "RCA not Zenith".
As it spams someone looking for Zeniths. One could get around that
by saying "RCA !Zenith". "!" means "not" in some programming
circles.... :-)

The boffins at eBay call it 'keyword spamming' and devote a few pages
to the topic.