Craigslist Battles Spammers

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05-27-2008, 12:21 PM,

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Craigslist Battles Spammers

Quote:John Nagle writes in with a fascinating dissection of the ongoing battle between Craigslist and spammers. The back and forth nature of this battle is fascinating -- and somewhat disturbing when you realize the lengths to which spammers will go to get spam onto Craigslist, and the extent to which an entire ecosystem of scammers and software providers seems to have been built up around this effort:

"Spam on Craigslist has been a minor nuisance for years. Not any more. This year, the spammers started winning and are taking over Craigslist. Here's how they did it.

full article: http://techdirt.com/articles/20080523/0327151211.shtml

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