At 03:38 PM 7/31/1998 -0700, Barry Lee Brisco so eloquently stated:
>>effectively immediately The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/) has
>>dropped its subscription requirement for non-US visitors. All still must
>>register ... but reportedly "internet usages overseas is growing faster
>>than domestically" so they have made a strategic (branding) decision.
>
>Kathy, thanks for that info. I can relate perhaps more than most. Last
>year, when I was still living in Singapore, I sent an annoyed email to the
>NYT-online complaining that I had to pay to access their site, whereas my
>father sitting in California did not. I asked to know what their reasoning
>was for this disparity - did it cost them more to provide the site to me?
>(of course it did not :)
>
>They gave me a nonsensical answer, and I never went back to the site. Now
>that I'm stateside, I do visit it occasionally, but spend more time at
>washingtonpost.com
>
Follow Georgie's rule of reading newspapers: "Never trust a
newspaper that doesn't have funnies." (The NYT editorial page doesn't count).
George
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