The work can be found in comic bookshops, at collectors' fairs, through mail auctions, on the internet, or direct from the artists.
Instead, it's updated every couple of hours, rendering much of the personal data, particularly that which pertains to equities, E-mail, auction pricing and airfare rates, essentially useless.
Other companies that have been impersonated in phishing e-mails are auction sites, particularly eBay, and online brokerages.
Yahoo's paid services, including e-mail storage, auctions and personals, are also gaining strength with international audiences as consumer resistance to paid content begins to ease.
On Friday, Mr. Walker said in an e-mail that the auction's outcome was "disappointing for anyone who believes that open innovation benefits users and promotes creativity and competition".
At an Ebay-style auction you mail off a check to the individual who is selling — and pray that you don't get stiffed.
Then about a month before the auction, Lelands mails the completed catalogue, typically 100 to 200 pages, to 9,500 people on its mailing list.
Yesterday, both sites removed mailing lists from their auction sites, citing "privacy" concerns.
With one glance, they can see whether they have new E-mail or if an auction bid has been accepted, for instance.
"What the Web really offers is the communication ability -- e-mail and voice, auctions and chat -- and I think that has been really revolutionary on the consumer side," said Justin Post, an analyst at Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown.
