Jim Skydell writes:

An interesting analogy: Should the SSA give away free magazine
subscriptions to anyone who asks (I am not talking about a free
issue once in a while to interested people, as marketing - we do
that all the time in many venues)? Of course we cannot do that.

SSA is in no position to give everything away, and doing so (online)
in the past (among other things) nearly ran it into the ground.

You can do that, unlike a free dead tree magazine it has a zero
extra cost, or very close to it.

Not wanting to is a seperate issue.

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