X-Message-Number: 20227
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:02:58 -0700
From: Ziana Astralos <>
Subject: Re: New York Times
References: <>

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 Kennita Watson <> wrote:
> Subject: Please don't post NY Times links!
> 
> I neither have nor want a subscription to the New York Times.
> If you want me to see these articles, please cut and paste
> the text (or whatever subset of it you like) to an email
> message.  Thanks!

> Subject: Medscape Registration
> 
> Someone pointed out that Medscape also requires a login.
> The difference is that it's free; just go to
> http://www.medscape.com and Register -- if you tell it
> to "Remember me", you can thereafter ignore the fact
> that there's a login at all!

Actually, registration with the New York Times website is free, and any 

articles you see linked to on mailing lists are almost always ones which do not

*ever* move to the portion of archive which is only available to people who pay
a per-article fee.

You don't have to register at all, actually. Just log in with something like 
cpunks/cpunks or cpunks2/cpunks2 , tell it to remember your login, and you can 
thereafter ignore the fact that there's a login at all ;-) Been using it for 
years...

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