Craigslist started in 1995 as a local San Francisco newsletter and has grown to host classified ads for over 450 cities worldwide. It allows users to browse classified ads online or post their own ads for free in categories like jobs, housing, items for sale, and services. Craigslist has a simple signup process that requires only a valid email address to create an account. Users help monitor site content by flagging interesting or inappropriate posts. The article will examine Craigslist's impact, corporate structure, and some controversies surrounding the site.

1. S1200114 Hiroaki Kato
From Univ. of Aizu

2.  Craigslist is administered by Craigslist Inc. in
United of America at the state of California.
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3.  Originally a San Francisco community
electronic newsletter, is now one of the
most visited English language Web sites,
with local classifieds for more than 450
cities worldwide. The site’s main function is
to host classified ads that cover practically
every category you can think of, including
housing, job postings, items for sale,
services and personals.

4.  If all you want to do is browse the site, you
can just visit craigslist. Org and click away.
The site has a range of broad categories,
and each category has several
subcategories, making it easy to navigate
to the appropriate section quickly.
 The “for sale” category features
subcategories like computer, electronics,
sporting and collectibles, among others

5.  Most ads include the member’s e-mail
address. Craigslist offers a function that
masks e-mail so that members don’t have
to worry about about their address being
openly available. All transactions are
between the person who posted the ad
and the person responding to it.
Craigslist’s employees don’t get involved in
any transactions or discussions unless
someone reports a problem.

6.  If you want to participate in forum discussions
or post your own classifieds, you need to
create a craigslist account. The only thing you
need to become a member is a valid address.
The signup process is short and painless –
after entering your e-mail and filling in a
verification word, you’ll receive an e-mail that
includes a link you’ll need to click on to verify
your account and log in. Once you’ve done
that, you’ve officially joined the craigslist
community.

7.  Craigslist users act like the site’s
watchdogs by monitoring the content that
gets posted. Users flag posts to draw
attention to those that are particularly
interesting and those that detract from the
site. The tags that can be applied to post
are best of craigslist, miscategorized,
spam/overpost and prohibited.

8.  In the article, we’ll look at craigslist’s
impact on the Internet, the corporate
structure of the company and some of the
controversies involving the Web site.
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