Pipes & Faucets
Yesterday afternoon craigslist engineering noticed a disproportionate amount of server/bandwidth resources being consumed by requests referred via Yahoo Pipes, with the lion’s share of that activity appearing also to be in violation of CL terms of use. Pipes access has been suspended pending further review.
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Can you clarify what these violations looked like ?
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:50 pm
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December 3rd, 2009 at 11:16 am
This sucks for me.
I live in a rural area. I was using Pipes to aggregate the RSS feeds of several searches of interest to me from the various metro areas that are somewhat close by. Now I’ll have to triple the number of RSS feeds in my reader.
It worked great for the past year and a half — now broken on purpose.
March 14th, 2010 at 12:28 am
Right on, i just read al about it on Google headline news , then it linked over here.
I am happy that you (the little guy? lol) is fighting back and with brains to boot. That impresses me and gives me hope.
Ebay(fee-bay) wants to be as close to a monopoly as possible. This mindset is unamerican as competition is part of what made our country great. Ebay will have to get used to the fact that change is as constant as their rising fees and shrinking support for sellers. If you go on ebay with the intent of strictly being a buyer and they still want your charge card information claiming it’s for age verification but they don’t have a good reply when you tell them a minor can have debit card.
I do not hate that other site, but they breached their contract with you, and need to just step down and drop out of your business.
Go Craig and JIm
Keep on Rockin