It appears to be true: the New York Times is no longer requiring a registration to read their web site! I know it was always free, but I just didn't like having to fill in forms of personal info (even though you could just fill in whatever you wanted.) Usually at sites that require a sign in, the name 'cypherpunk' with the password 'cypherpunk' (sometimes the plural) will work, but this never really hooked me up at the times. Now I don't have to worry about it - unless it's just some glitch in their system. I guess we'll know soon.
did you pick that up from robot wisdom? will we have to type in our password for every post or can you have it recognize the user if that option is desireable?
yes, I saw it on robotwisdom (I actually posted this yesterday with the credit to RW, but the post got erased when I was dealing with a bug in the editing system - that's my excuse at least.)
Ya, I guess you're probably right about the password thing. Nothing here is really secure, so probably it's just a nuisance.
OK, we're sans password for the discussion section. If we had any traffic we'd probably get a bunch of obnoxious posts. Maybe some more people (like dave and alex) should be able to delete posts in case things get out of control (although again, we've got the security through obscurity working for us now.) How do people feel about that (say, in light of dave's rant about aol moderating his posts?) I mean, I'm all for people saying whatever they want, but are there limits? I guess we'll deal with this if/when it becomes a problem.
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- jim 1-28-2000 12:16 pm
did you pick that up from robot wisdom? will we have to type in our password for every post or can you have it recognize the user if that option is desireable?
- dave 1-28-2000 12:21 pm [add a comment]
yes, I saw it on robotwisdom (I actually posted this yesterday with the credit to RW, but the post got erased when I was dealing with a bug in the editing system - that's my excuse at least.)
Ya, I guess you're probably right about the password thing. Nothing here is really secure, so probably it's just a nuisance.
- jim 1-28-2000 1:33 pm [add a comment]
OK, we're sans password for the discussion section. If we had any traffic we'd probably get a bunch of obnoxious posts. Maybe some more people (like dave and alex) should be able to delete posts in case things get out of control (although again, we've got the security through obscurity working for us now.) How do people feel about that (say, in light of dave's rant about aol moderating his posts?) I mean, I'm all for people saying whatever they want, but are there limits? I guess we'll deal with this if/when it becomes a problem.
- jim 1-28-2000 1:49 pm [add a comment]