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I have tried several times to answer adds in the personal sections but have yet to ever receive a reply from anyone. To check on this I created my own personal add and tried answeing it with my anonymous email account and It never goes through. I answered it with my persnal account and it worked. I tried both my anonymous Gmail and yahoo. any ideas?

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Answer #1: Posted by Odin on January 13th, 2012 5:44 PM

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Your question is not completely clear, but I hope the following will help.

A fact not commonly known is that including one's own contact information in a Craigslist ad will very likely garner more response than using only the Craigslist anonymizing email address, because responding emails using the Craigslist address may never be received.

Craigslist says that in an effort to curb abuse of its email servers and limit the amount of spam inflicted upon its users, it does not accept email from computers with dynamically assigned IP addresses, or hosts that have generic DNS setup.

You'll find more information on this Craigslist page.

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