In its first year it was a two-man shop, Karp and Arment, whom Karp recruited via a Craigslist ad.
Mr Davis said he responded to a Craigslist ad to work as a farmhand, and met Rafferty and a man who called himself "Jack" for breakfast before driving to an isolated farm.
Earlier this month, Christopher Lee, a married New York congressman, quickly resigned from the House after Gawker published a shirtless photo of him and an email exchange with a woman in response to her Craigslist personal ad.
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Both the ex-boyfriend and the Craigslist-ad-responding rapist plead guilty to felonies including sexual assault and were sentenced to 60 years. (Note to readers: Yet another reason NOT to respond to rape fantasy ads.) But when the crime does not go beyond the prank itself, the punishment is usually simple probation.
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It happened again very publicly just last week, when Chris Lee, a family values Republican congressman from upstate New York, discovered it wasn't such a great idea to respond to a woman's Craigslist personal ad by e-mailing her a photo of himself, shirtless, using his own real name but claiming he was a lobbyist (and "a very fit fun classy guy" too).
Dislodging Craigslist from its place atop the ad market would be hard even without litigation because classified advertising is a classic example of network effects: Craigslist gets so many listings because people know it is the leading site, so their ad will be widely seen.
The bills "supposedly address real needs, but in practice are means by which bad actors (with lots of money and lawyers) can take sites down, " Craig Newmark, founder of the online classified-ad site Craigslist, wrote in a blog post Monday.
The wounded man -- Scott Davis from South Carolina -- told the law enforcement officer that he had answered an ad on the Craigslist website offering work caring for cattle on a 688-acre property in eastern Ohio before he was shot by Beasley.
Some of the monopolies are natural: Craigslist won due to the fragmentation of the traditional classified ad market.
As the wire service notes, the two companies have been feuding over allegations that eBay used its Craigslist board seat to collect confidential information as eBay was building a rival classified ad site.
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D. student who lives in Oakland, Ms. Jackson saw an ad for Article One researchers while searching for a part-time job on Craigslist a few years ago.
Some of the biggest threats to newspaper profits have come from Web sites like Craigslist and Monster.com, online advertising venues that are chipping away at newspapers' classified ad sections.
Consider what Google and Craigslist have done to strip newspapers like the L.A. Times of their readers and classified-ad revenue base.
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