lexipixel - 6:27 am on Aug 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

"...recently posted a job opening on Craigslist and got email bombed..." - Bewenched

Whenever I post on CL, I write "Please respond with your name and phone number and I'll call you ASAP". I use CL quite a bit a find 50% of the email I reply to generates a week of spam.

If I'm selling a car or renting out a room I sometimes put my phone number in the ad and no email (not even the anonymous CL address).

I think CL is a major cause of the drop in profits for Monster. I'm in the Boston, MA area and CL did free posts for everything for a couple years, a few months ago they started charging for JOBS listings --- which had a positive effect and got rid of all the scammers posting "Work From Home" and "Model Wanted" ads, no drop in overall real job listings.

CL definitely hurt the local newspaper "Help Wanted" section and it has to be hurting Monster.

CL is fast, easy to search, no hoops to jump through and people can still post under Gigs and Service (and other areas of CL) as "Work Wanted" or "Services Offered" for free -- I haven't been on Monster in a few years (and used to browse all the time looking for short term contract work), now I check CL and pick-up work there often.