On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Matthew <[email protected]> wrote: > It is also worth noting that Craigslist prevents the use of Tor albeit in a > very strange way. > > If you try to post using Tor the ad will be permitted at first and people > can contact you. However, after about 15 minutes (and it is always about 15 > minutes) the post is "flagged" and disappears. This happens even if the > exit node is in the same location as the section where you are trying to > place the ad e.g. using a Californian exit server and the ad is something to > do with California. > > I can understand that every day or week the Craigslist system has a look at > the Tor exit nodes directory and therefore can identify Tor nodes. > > What I fail to understand is why the Craigslist policy is to permit the > posting then "flag" it after 15 minutes or so? Is this automatic? Is it > human? I find it bizarre. What might be the reasons?
That's interesting. I haven't tried this myself, but I would imagine it may have to do with the way that craigslist generates their pages. I could be very wrong, but I think that they're regularly generating static pages to be served rather than making them dynamically. For example, if you're searching for a popular term or watching a popular category, the page for a search only seems to get updated every 15 - 20 mins at which point several new entries will show up. Maybe posts created from tor exit nodes are flagged in this automatic page regeneration? Cheers, jof *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
