Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Re: [asterisk-biz] CraigsList PVA & VoIP

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Nitzan Kon wrote:

>
> It's not even that deep... they just look at the NPA-NXX
> and decide you're VoIP if it comes up as Level 3 and other
> such carriers...
>
> I'll leave my comments out, but let's just say my opinion
> on this starts with an R...

Craigslist wants to keep things clean, individual driven content, not
business and automated crap. Craigslist doesn't tell you if a number has
been used before or not, and it makes things difficult for people who want
to create a thousand craigslist accounts to spam them with disallowed
advertisements so they can make a buck.

In fact, I go out of my way to block any service that uses a phone number
to verify an account because I cannot guarantee that the number I sell
hasn't already been used on a service to open someone elses account.
Because I cannot guarantee it can be used to open an account, it is easier
to block them and disallow it than to hope it works so _I_ can make a
buck.

Beckman
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