dear world

I love the forward-post-to-a-friend feature on Craigslist. For instance, if I see a posting that says "Six-foot-tall black actress needed for comedic short film," I could click on "forward to a friend" and send the posting to a friend who meets that description.

However, if you don't quite want that person to know you're the one who sent the posting, you can simply put the recipient's address as both sender and recipient, and the recipient receives an email ostensibly from herself, to herself.

This gets weird when you start getting Craigslist postings and you don't know whom they're from. For instance, if you wanted to send someone a posting that said "scary, ugly type needed for gangster role" without that person knowing you thought they were ugly, you might send such a thing anonymously.

Yeah ... so, every once in awhile, someone forwards me a Craigslist posting for "Strong women needed for ball-crushing video."

Thanks.