FYI -- for those who don't wish to register on their own at websites
that require registration, there is a website
www.bugmenot.com (Bug Me Not dot com)
that allows users to "share" logins. If you type in www.nytimes.com
into the box at the top of the screen, it will show you a list of
public login/passwords already available for the nytimes.com website.
But I believe some websites don't like this sharing, and if they
suspect a login/password has come from bugmenot.com, they may disable
it. This may be why bugmenot.com lists a "success rate" for these
public or shared logins.
I'm not sure what the opinion of this list may be for bugmenot.com .
I know that websites like to track the number of users they have, but
me, I don't really like giving out answers to some of the personal
questions they ask. We hear more and more about identity theft on the
news, and I question whether asking for birth date is really appropriate.
A computer programmer, not a linguist,
- Elaine
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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
wrote:
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> Dear List,
>
> Due to some mysterious reason, Nicholas Wade's NYT article on
> Eruscan origins, whose link I had posted this morning, can now only
> be accessed after registering (for free) for NYTimes.com. Yet I had
> accessed it directly just a couple hours ago!
>
> For the benefit of those who don't want to get registered to read
> the article, I paste here the plain text of the same. Mind, however,
> that the NYT online article also includes some interesting genetic
> maps that cannot be reproduced here...