I really appreciate the services that craigslist provides. It’s all free, too [short of San Francisco and NYC if I'm not mistaken.] They do have a very dumb spam detection mechanism, though.

I use filters on many of my GMail accounts. Not labels but the kind of addresses that you use as user+filter@gmail.com Many geeks know that the MTA [Mail Transport Agent] will simply not care what’s after the +, but it’s a good way to a) filter your mail and b) see who’s selling your address to spam services.

Only thing is, craigslist believes that I am spamming. This is probably why they remove my postings about 2 minutes after I write them - I can only figure out it’s something automated from when the system looks at my address right about when it’s going to list my posting. No warning, no restriction on signing up for an account with that e-mail address, nothing [not even a reply from their helpdesk, although I suppose they're heavily backlogged.] This, I’m afraid, makes it a very dumb system.

Registering and using a craigslist@some-domain.com address worked fine though. Which is rather ironic, wouldn’t you think?

P.S. You can use these same obfuscations in your home addresses to see why you’re getting all that junk mail. Just add some random, minor identifier when you need to give out your address. Like an apartment modifier - 102B instead of 102 - or something similar. It won’t confuse the mailman [if you're careful enough] but it should let you know who’s doing what [information courtesy of 2600]