Spammer Pays Up at EBay Content Integrity7/28/2000; 2:00:17 PM 'ReverseAuction has agreed to pay $1.2 million and to quit harvesting emails from eBay's site as part of a settlement agreement.''Harvesting users' email addresses from eBay servers was an act of trespass, said Monahan.'Apparently this ruling stems from the same legal theory as the one they used to block Bidder's Edge from collecting eBay auctions either.