"Dennis O'Connor" wrote in message
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Many news organizations require you to subscribe in order to read... Both
Google News and MSN news will post links that run you into that... I
personally will not sign up on any site for any reason - ymmv


As more and more online news sources are going that way my lo-tech New York
Times paper that arrives on my driveway every morning looks better and
better. Lately, between incredible spam and having to register and sign up
for everything, I find myself online less and less.

Clearly, online news and other information has value. However, I believe
many information sources have an inflated sense of what that value is. If I
go to the library and every time I wanted to pick up a paper or magizine
from the periodicals rack I had to fill out a form (like the online ones) I
sure would be discouraged from browsing, yet that what the internet is
coming to.